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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Stuart Levine
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-12680 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Seila Amy C AC Calabrese J Mauro JM Levine Stuart S SS Yeo Gene W GW Rahl Peter B PB Flynn Ryan A RA Young Richard A RA Sharp Phillip A PA
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20081204 5909
Transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) is thought to occur unidirectionally from most genes. Here, we present evidence of widespread divergent transcription at protein-encoding gene promoters. Transcription start site-associated RNAs (TSSa-RNAs) nonrandomly flank active promoters, with peaks of antisense and sense short RNAs at 250 nucleotides upstream and 50 nucleotides downstream of TSSs, respectively. Northern analysis shows that TSSa-RNAs are subsets of an RNA population 20 t ...[more]