Genes involved in pre-mRNA 3′-end formation and transcription termination revealed by a lin-15 operon Muv suppressor screen

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 43, 2008, Pages 16665-16670

  Cui, Mingxue ^a   Allen, Mary Ann ^a   Larsen, Alison ^a   MacMorris, Margaret ^a   Han, Min ^a   Blumenthal, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans operon; CTD; RNA polymerase II C terminal domain; SRp20

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CLEAVAGE AND POLYADENYLATION SPECIFICITY FACTOR; CLEAVAGE STIMULATION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; SERINE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CLEAVAGE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLEAVAGE AND POLYADENYLATION SPECIFICITY FACTOR; CLEAVAGE STIMULATION FACTOR; OPERON; RNA 3' END PROCESSING; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 55949125725     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807104105     Document Type: Article

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