MRNA quality control goes transcriptional

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1666-1672

  Kilchert, Cornelia ^a   Vasiljeva, Lidia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exosome; Mrna; Processing; Quality control; Transcription; Xrn2

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR RNA; NUCLEASE; RAT1 ENZYME; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XRN2 ENZYME;

BINDING SITE; CENTROMERE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA STRAND; DOWN REGULATION; EXOSOME; FUNGAL CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA CAPPING; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPLICEOSOME; STOP CODON; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRANSPOSON;

DOWN-REGULATION; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84887923628     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20130202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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