Inefficient processing impairs release of RNA from the site of transcription

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2855-2866

  Custódio, Noélia ^a   Carmo Fonseca, Maria ^a   Geraghty, Finola ^b   Pereira, H Sofia ^a   Grosveld, Frank ^c   Antoniou, Michael ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Pre mRNA processing; RNA transport; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMANITIN; BETA GLOBIN; DACTINOMYCIN; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

AMANITINS; CELL LINE; DACTINOMYCIN; DICHLORORIBOFURANOSYLBENZIMIDAZOLE; GLOBINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; MUTATION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SPLICEOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0041013167     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.10.2855     Document Type: Article

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