Pause sites promote transcriptional termination of mammalian RNA polymerase II

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3986-3996

  Gromak, Natalia ^a   West, Steven ^a   Proudfoot, Nick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXORIBONUCLEASES; GLOBINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RNA; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33646556092     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.26.10.3986-3996.2006     Document Type: Article

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