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Dual functionality of a plant U-rich intronic sequence element.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Jan 2004
Simpson Craig G, Jennings S Nikki, Clark Gillian P, Thow Graham, Brown John W S
Abstract excerpt
In potato invertase genes, the constitutively included, 9-nucleotide (nt)-long mini-exon requires a strong branchpoint and U-rich polypyrimidine tract for inclusion. The strength of these splicing signals was demonstrated by greatly enhanced splicing of a poorly spliced intron and by their ability to support splicing of an artificial mini-exon, following their introduction. Plant introns also require a second...
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