Expression of human snRNA genes from beginning to end

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 590-594

  Egloff, Sylvain ^a   O'Reilly, Dawn ^a   Murphy, Shona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C terminal domain; RNA polymerase II (pol II); RNA processing; Small nuclear RNA (snRNA); Transcription

Indexed keywords

HEPTAPEPTIDE; POSITIVE TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR B; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 49349110521     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST0360590     Document Type: Review

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