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The Drosophila U7 snRNP proteins Lsm10 and Lsm11 are required for histone pre-mRNA processing and play an essential role in development.
RNA (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Sept 2009
Godfrey Ashley C, White Anne E, Tatomer Deirdre C, 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 of the pre-mRNA involving U7 snRNP. U7 snRNP contains two like-Sm proteins, Lsm10 and Lsm11, which replace SmD1 and SmD2 in the canonical heptameric Sm protein ring that binds spliceosomal snRNAs. Here we show that mutations in either the Drosophila...
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