The chemical reactions and pathways involving cryptic unstable transcripts (CUTs), which are transcribed from intergenic regions. Many intergenic regions are heavily transcribed, but the transcripts are rarely detected due to rapid degradation by the nuclear exosome. [GOC:dgf, GOC:krc, PMID:15935759, PMID:16973436]
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C5: Ontology GO: Gene Ontology GO:BP: GO Biological Process