G-quadruplex structures in RNA stimulate mitochondrial transcription termination and primer formation

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

Volumn 107, Issue 37, 2010, Pages 16072-16077

  Wanrooij, Paulina H ^a,b   Uhler, Jay P ^a   Simonsson, Tomas ^a   Falkenberg, Maria ^a,c   Gustafsson, Claes M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGY OF AGEING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mitochondrion; RNA polymerase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; PRIMER RNA; RHO FACTOR; RNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REGULATOR GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; G-QUADRUPLEXES; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77958007950     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1006026107     Document Type: Article

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