Nuclear-localized tiny RNAs are associated with transcription initiation and splice sites in metazoans

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1030-1034

  Taft, Ryan J ^a   Simons, Cas ^a,b   Nahkuri, Satu ^a   Oey, Harald ^a   Korbie, Darren J ^a   Mercer, Timothy R ^a   Holst, Jeff ^c,d   Ritchie, William ^c,d   Wong, Justin J L ^c   Rasko, John E J ^c,d,e   Rokhsar, Daniel S ^f   Degnan, Bernard M ^a   Mattick, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Queensland Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics   (Australia)

^c CENTENARY INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; SMALL CYTOPLASMIC RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; RNA; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA TRANSPORT; RNA, SMALL NUCLEOLAR; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 77955419755     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1841     Document Type: Article

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