5'-Capping enzymes are targeted to pre-mRNA by binding to the phosphorylated carboxy-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 3306-3318

  McCracken, Susan ^a   Fong, Nova ^a   Rosonina, Emanuel ^b   Yankulov, Krassimir ^a   Brothers, Greg ^a   Siderovski, David ^a   Hessel, Andrew ^a   Foster, Stephen ^c   Shuman, Stewart ^d   Bentley, David L ^b  

^a AMGEN INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c AMGEN INC   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CTD; MRNA cap; RNA 7 methyltransferase; RNA guanylyltransferase; RNA Pol II

Indexed keywords

CAPPED RNA; GUANINE DERIVATIVE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA CAPPING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 15644372864     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.24.3306     Document Type: Article

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