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. 2002 Dec 23;12(24):R855-7.
doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(02)01353-2.

Polyadenylation: a tail of two complexes

Nick Proudfoot  1 , Justin O'Sullivan
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Polyadenylation: a tail of two complexes

Nick Proudfoot et al. Curr Biol. .
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Abstract

Recent studies have uncovered new connections between the enzymes of mRNA 3' end processing and RNA polymerase II. These connections improve the efficiency of polyadenylation and signal to the polymerase to terminate transcription; their discovery reveals another level of gene regulation.

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