Transcriptional termination in the Balbiani ring 1 gene is closely coupled to 3'-end formation and excision of the 3'-terminal intron

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 2759-2769

  Baurén, Göran ^a   Belikov, Sergey ^b,c   Wieslander, Lars ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Pre mRNA processing; Splicing

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0032167935     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.17.2759     Document Type: Article

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