Functional coupling of last-intron splicing and 3′-end processing to transcription in vitro: The poly(A) signal couples to splicing before committing to cleavage

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 849-862

  Rigo, Frank ^a   Martinson, Harold G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; POLYADENYLIC ACID; RNA;

ARTICLE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYADENYLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

EXONS; GLOBINS; HUMANS; INTRONS; POLY A; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA 3' END PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 37849032986     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01410-07     Document Type: Article

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