Distance of 3 prime cleavage site downstream of polyadenylation signal

Range 10-30 nucleotides
Organism Mammals
Reference Tian B, Hu J, Zhang H, Lutz CS. A large-scale analysis of mRNA polyadenylation of human and mouse genes. Nucleic Acids Res. 2005 Jan 1233(1):201-12.PubMed ID15647503
Comments The terminal sequence of most mammalian genes contains the consensus AAUAAA hexamer (or a close variant)
Entered by Uri M
ID 103252