A complex gene regulatory mechanism that operates at the nexus of multiple RNA processing decisions

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 255-264

  McPheeters, David S ^a   Cremona, Nicole ^a   Sunder, Sham ^a   Chen, Huei Mei ^b   Averbeck, Nicole ^b   Leatherwood, Janet ^b   Wise, Jo Ann ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; POLYADENYLIC ACID; POLYNUCLEOTIDE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN CRS1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; DNA SPLICING; EXOSOME; GENE; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MEIOSIS; MUTANT; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TIGHT JUNCTION; YEAST CELL;

CYCLINS; EXOSOMES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MRNA CLEAVAGE AND POLYADENYLATION FACTORS; POLYNUCLEOTIDE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; RNA, FUNGAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 62049083223     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1556     Document Type: Article

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