Nascent transcription from the nmt1 and nmt2 genes of Schizosaccharomyces pombe overlaps neighbouring genes

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3066-3077

  Hansen, Karen ^a,b   Birse, Charles E ^a,c   Proudfoot, Nick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3' End formation; nmt1; Polyadenylation; Schizosaccharomyces pombe; Transcription termination

Indexed keywords

POLYADENYLATED RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; STEADY STATE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, OVERLAPPING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE CHAIN TERMINATION, TRANSLATIONAL; POLY A; RNA, FUNGAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; THIAMINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032101266     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.11.3066     Document Type: Article

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