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Human GC-AG alternative intron isoforms with weak donor sites show enhanced consensus at acceptor exon positions.
Nucleic acids research - 15 Jun 2001
Thanaraj T A, Clark F
Abstract excerpt
It has been previously observed that the intrinsically weak variant GC donor sites, in order to be recognized by the U2-type spliceosome, possess strong consensus sequences maximized for base pair formation with U1 and U5/U6 snRNAs. However, variability in signal strength is a fundamental mechanism for splice site selection in alternative splicing. Here we report human alternative GC-AG introns (for the first...
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