Widespread occurrence of non-canonical transcription termination by human RNA polymerase III

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 5499-5512

  Orioli, Andrea ^a   Pascali, Chiara ^a,b   Quartararo, Jade ^a   Diebel, Kevin W ^c   Praz, Viviane ^d   Romascano, David ^d   Percudani, Riccardo ^a   Van Dyk, Linda F ^c   Hernandez, Nouria ^d   Teichmann, Martin ^b   Dieci, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT EUROPÉEN DE CHIMIE ET BIOLOGIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; MICRORNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GAMMAHERPESVIRINAE; GENOME ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRNA GENE;

3' FLANKING REGION; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; RNA POLYMERASE III; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 80052253616     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr074     Document Type: Article

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