Transcription termination and the control of the transcriptome: Why, where and how to stop

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 190-202

  Porrua, Odil ^a   Libri, Domenico ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAP BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNTRANSLATED RNA; DNA HELICASE; NAB3 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; NRD1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA HELICASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SEN1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE;

ANIMAL; CELL FATE; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; RNA REPLICATION; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; YEAST; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; DNA HELICASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA CAP-BINDING PROTEINS; RNA HELICASES; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84923818964     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3943     Document Type: Review

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