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Switch in 3' splice site recognition between exon definition and splicing catalysis is important for sex-lethal autoregulation.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Mar 2001
Penalva L O, Lallena M J, Valcárcel J
Abstract excerpt
Maintenance of female sexual identity in Drosophila melanogaster involves an autoregulatory loop in which the protein Sex-lethal (SXL) promotes skipping of exon 3 from its own pre-mRNA. We have used transient transfection of Drosophila Schneider cells to analyze the role of exon 3 splice sites in regulation. Our results indicate that exon 3 repression requires competition between the 5' splice sites of exons 2...
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