A Genome-wide Study of "Non-3UTR" Polyadenylation Sites in Arabidopsis thaliana.

ABSTRACT: Alternative polyadenylation has been recognized as a key contributor of gene expression regulation by generating different transcript isoforms with altered 3' ends. Although polyadenylation is well known for marking the end of a 3' UTR, an increasing number of studies have reported previously less-addressed polyadenylation events located in other parts of genes in many eukaryotic organisms. These other locations include 5' UTRs, introns and coding sequences (termed herein as non-3UTR), as well as antisense and intergenic polyadenlation. Focusing on the non-3UTR polyadenylation sites (n3PASs), we detected and characterized more than 11000 n3PAS clusters in the Arabidopsis genome using poly(A)-tag sequencing data (PAT-Seq). Further analyses suggested that the occurrence of these n3PASs were

SUBMITTER: Guo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4908657 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature