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mRNA capping enzyme requirement for Caenorhabditis elegans viability.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 18 Apr 2003
Srinivasan Priya, Piano Fabio, Shatkin Aaron J
Abstract excerpt
Capping of the initiated 5' ends of RNA polymerase II products is evolutionarily and functionally conserved from yeasts to humans. The m(7)GpppN cap promotes RNA stability, processing, transport, and translation. Deletion of capping enzymes in yeasts was shown to be lethal due to rapid exonucleolytic degradation of uncapped transcripts or failure of capped but unmethylated RNA to initiate protein synthesis. Using...
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