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Abstract
Sequences downstream from the AATAAA motif in a number of cellular and viral transcription units have been compared. A 12-bp conserved element was identified in approximately half of the cases studied, and a consensus sequence TTGANNNTTTTTT was derived from a comparison of 74 such sequences. This element is located immediately (5-20 bp) downstream from the poly(A)-addition site in every case where this is known, and it is suggested that this element may be involved in the cleavage/polyadenylation reaction. This proposal is consistent with published studies on deletion mutants of downstream regions.Entities:
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Year: 1987 PMID: 2895038 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(87)90233-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Gene ISSN: 0378-1119 Impact factor: 3.688