Transcriptional termination and coupled polyadenylation in vitro

EMBO Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 3770-3777

  Yonaha, Masatomo ^a   Proudfoot, Nick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3' end processing; Cleavage; Polyadenylation; Transcriptional termination

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; POLYADENYLATED RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

EID: 0034679725     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.14.3770     Document Type: Article

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