A comprehensive analysis of 3' end sequencing data sets reveals novel polyadenylation signals and the repressive role of heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein C on cleavage and polyadenylation

Genome Research

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1145-1159

  Gruber, Andreas J ^a   Schmidt, Ralf ^a   Gruber, Andreas R ^a   Martin, Georges ^a   Ghosh, Souvik ^a   Belmadani, Manuel ^a,b   Keller, Walter ^a   Zavolan, Mihaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN C; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; POLYURIDYLIC ACID; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN GROUP C; MESSENGER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; GENE SILENCING; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ANIMAL; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOUSE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN GROUP C; HUMANS; MICE; POLYADENYLATION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84982957237     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.202432.115     Document Type: Article

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