Principles for RNA metabolism and alternative transcription initiation within closely spaced promoters

Nature Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 984-994

  Chen, Yun ^a,b   Pai, Athma A ^c   Herudek, Jan ^d   Lubas, Michal ^b,d   Meola, Nicola ^d   Järvelin, Aino I ^e,g   Andersson, Robin ^a   Pelechano, Vicent ^e,g,h   Steinmetz, Lars M ^e,f   Jensen, Torben Heick ^d   Sandelin, Albin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; RNA;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA METABOLISM; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYADENYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84979529679     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3616     Document Type: Article

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