Sense and antisense transcripts of convergent gene pairs in Arabidopsis thaliana can share a common polyadenylation region

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Zubko, Elena ^a   Kunova, Andrea ^a   Meyer, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYADENYLIC ACID; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; POLYADENYLATION; SENSE AND ANTISENSE TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; CHEMISTRY; CODON; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS; CODON; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOTYPE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLY A; POLYADENYLATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79551653792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016769     Document Type: Article

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