Autocatalytic RNA cleavage in the human β-globin pre-mRNA promotes transcription termination

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7016, 2004, Pages 526-530

  Teixeira, Alexandre ^a   Tahiri Alaoui, Abdessamad ^a   West, Steve ^a   Thomas, Benjamin ^a   Ramadass, Aroul ^b   Martianov, Igor ^a   Dye, Mick ^a   James, William ^a   Proudfoot, Nick J ^a   Akoulitchev, Alexandre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; ENZYMES; GENES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

AUTOCATALYTIC RNA CLEAVAGE; MOLECULAR PROCESSES; RIBOZYMES; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

RNA;

BETA GLOBIN; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; POLYADENYLIC ACID; RIBOZYME; RNA;

GENE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MYXOMYCETES; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GLOBINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CHONDROMYCES; DIDYMIUM IRIDIS; MYXOGASTRIA; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PRIMATES;

EID: 9644270488     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03032     Document Type: Article

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