PROMoter uPstream Transcripts share characteristics with mRNAs and are produced upstream of all three major types of mammalian promoters

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 7179-7193

  Preker, Pascal ^a   Almvig, Kristina ^a   Christensen, Marianne S ^a   Valen, Eivind ^b   Mapendano, Christophe K ^a   Sandelin, Albin ^b   Jensen, Torben Heick ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN D1; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; MESSENGER RNA; POLYNUCLEOTIDE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; PROMOTER UPSTREAM TRANSCRIPTS; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; SERINE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOSOME; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STEADY STATE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

CYCLIN D1; GENES, MYC; HEK293 CELLS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; POLYADENYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; RNA POLYMERASE I; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA POLYMERASE III; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NUCLEAR; SERINE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 80051764912     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr370     Document Type: Article

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