title: Joys and surprises of a career studying eukaryotic gene expression.
abstract: In this Reflections, I review a few early and very lucky events that gave me a running start for the rest of a long and wonderfully enjoyable career. For the main part, a discussion is provided of what I recall as the main illuminating results that my many dozens of students and postdoctoral fellows (approximately 140 in all) provided to our biochemical/molecular biological world.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10065, USA. darnell@mail.rockefeller.edu
authors.forename: James E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Darnell
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005057:Eukaryotic Cells; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans
keywords: Adenovirus RNAs; MicroRNA; Nuclear RNA; Poliovirus RNA; Pre-rRNA; Pre-tRNA; RNA; Ribosomal RNA (rRNA); STATs; mRNA