An interplay between transcription, processing, and degradation determines tRNA levels in yeast

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 709-722

  Wichtowska, Dominika ^a   Turowski, Tomasz W ^b   Boguta, Magdalena ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BDP1 PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; ENDONUCLEASE; LA ANTIGEN; LHP1 PROTEIN; LIGASE; LSM PROTEIN; MAF1 PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; NUCLEAR RNA; REX1 PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE P; RNA PRECURSOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIIB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIIC; TRANSFER RNA; TRLA ENZYME; TRM6 PROTEIN; TRM61 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EXOSOME; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW; RNA CHARGING; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA MATURATION; RNA METABOLISM; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; YEAST; YEAST CELL;

CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; EXOSOME MULTIENZYME RIBONUCLEASE COMPLEX; RNA POLYMERASE III; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA STABILITY; RNA, TRANSFER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84885701940     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1190     Document Type: Review

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