A functional human Poly(A) site requires only a potent DSE and an A-rich upstream sequence

EMBO Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1523-1536

  Nunes, Nuno Miguel ^a   Li, Wencheng ^b   Tian, Bin ^b   Furger, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

3'end processing; Intronless genes; Melanocortin 4 receptor; Noncanonical poly(A) sites

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYADENYLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWNSTREAM SEQUENCE ELEMENT; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; JUNB GENE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

3' FLANKING REGION; 3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ADENOSINE; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POLY A; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; RNA PRECURSORS; URIDINE;

EID: 77951977370     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2010.42     Document Type: Article

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