Pan J, Celma M L, Weissman S M
J Biol Chem. 1977 Dec 25;252(24):9047-54.
VA-RNA I is one of the very few RNA species produced in animal cells whose transcriptional initiation site is known precisely. We have analyzed the nucleotide sequence of the DNA preceding the 5' end of VA-RNA I and compared it with known prokaryotic promoters and presumptive eukaryotic promoters.