A 10 residue motif at the C-terminus of the RNA pol II CTD is required for transcription, splicing and 3′ end processing

EMBO Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 4274-4282

  Fong, Nova ^a   Bird, Gregory ^a   Vigneron, Marc ^b   Bentley, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

CTD; Polyadenylation; RNA polymerase II; Splicing; Transcription

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; MUTANT PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; POLYADENYLATED RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA POLYMERASE II; TYROSYLSERYLPROLYLTHREONYLSERYLPROLYLSERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL VIABILITY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REPORTER GENE; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; GENES, REPORTER; MUTATION; OOCYTES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSFECTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0042967793     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg396     Document Type: Article

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