"Cotranscriptionality": The Transcription Elongation Complex as a Nexus for Nuclear Transactions

Molecular Cell

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 178-191

  Perales, Roberto ^a   Bentley, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA; PROTEINS; RNA

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; ELONGATION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BIOGENESIS; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; TIGHT JUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; HUMANS; RNA 3' END PROCESSING; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 70350005395     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2009.09.018     Document Type: Review

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