Unraveling the mechanistic features of RNA polymerase II termination by the 5'-3' exoribonuclease Rat1

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2625-2637

  Park, Jieun ^a   Kang, Myungjin ^a   Kim, Minkyu ^a,b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXORIBONUCLEASE; PROTEIN RAT1; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; FUNGAL RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RAI1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; RAT1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; RTT103 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ATPASE ACTIVITY ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BASE SEQUENCE; EXORIBONUCLEASES; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, FUNGAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84937597324     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv133     Document Type: Article

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