Promoter proximal splice sites enhance transcription

Genes and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 2792-2799

  Furger, Andre ^a   O'Sullivan, Justin M ^a   Binnie, Alexandra ^a   Lee, Barbara A ^a   Proudfoot, Nick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Introns; Splice sites; Transcription

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRON; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YEAST;

GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, VIRAL; HIV-1; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036829698     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.983602     Document Type: Article

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