Signals for pre-mRNA cleavage and polyadenylation

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 385-396

  Tian, Bin ^a   Graber, Joel H ^b  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; POLYADENYLIC ACID;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANOPHELES GIAMBIAE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTHROPOD; BIOINFORMATICS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMAL; METAZOON; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPRES; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; MRNA CLEAVAGE AND POLYADENYLATION FACTORS; PLANTS; POLY A; POLYADENYLATION; POLYNUCLEOTIDE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA PRECURSORS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84862526272     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.116     Document Type: Review

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