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U7 snRNA mutations in Drosophila block histone pre-mRNA processing and disrupt oogenesis.
RNA (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Mar 2006
Godfrey Ashley C, Kupsco Jeremy M, Burch Brandon D, Zimmerman Ryan M, Dominski Zbigniew, Marzluff William F, Duronio Robert J
Abstract excerpt
Metazoan replication-dependent histone mRNAs are not polyadenylated, and instead terminate in a conserved stem-loop structure generated by an endonucleolytic cleavage involving the U7 snRNP, which interacts with histone pre-mRNAs through base-pairing between U7 snRNA and a purine-rich sequence in the pre-mRNA located downstream of the cleavage site. Here we generate null mutations of the single Drosophila U7 gene...
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