Post-transcriptional 3´-UTR cleavage of mRNA transcripts generates thousands of stable uncapped autonomous RNA fragments

oleh: Yuval Malka, Avital Steiman-Shimony, Eran Rosenthal, Liron Argaman, Leonor Cohen-Daniel, Eliran Arbib, Hanah Margalit, Tommy Kaplan, Michael Berger

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2017-12-01

Deskripsi

Most mammalian genes contain alternative polyadenylation sites. Here, the authors provide evidence that mRNA can be cleaved post-transcriptionally to generate mRNAs with shorter 3-´UTRs and stable autonomous uncapped 3´-UTR sequences.