Mutual relationships between transcription and pre-mRNA processing in the synthesis of mRNA

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 139-154

  Lenasi, Tina ^a   Barboric, Matjaz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN 1; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; KINETICS; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84874026084     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1148     Document Type: Review

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