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SUBMITTER: Neve J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5546720 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Neve Jonathan J Patel Radhika R Wang Zhiqiao Z Louey Alastair A Furger André Martin AM
RNA biology 20170428 7
Cleavage and polyadenylation (pA) is a fundamental step that is required for the maturation of primary protein encoding transcripts into functional mRNAs that can be exported from the nucleus and translated in the cytoplasm. 3'end processing is dependent on the assembly of a multiprotein processing complex on the pA signals that reside in the pre-mRNAs. Most eukaryotic genes have multiple pA signals, resulting in alternative cleavage and polyadenylation (APA), a widespread phenomenon that is imp ...[more]