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Establishment of an in vitro trans-splicing system in Trypanosoma brucei that requires endogenous spliced leader RNA.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jun 2010
Shaked Hadassa, Wachtel Chaim, Tulinski Pawel, Yahia Nasreen Hag, Barda Omer, Darzynkiewicz Edward, Nilsen Timothy W, Michaeli Shulamit
Abstract excerpt
In trypanosomes a 39 nucleotide exon, the spliced leader (SL) is donated to all mRNAs from a small RNA, the SL RNA, by trans-splicing. Since the discovery of trans-splicing in trypanosomes two decades ago, numerous attempts failed to reconstitute the reaction in vitro. In this study, a crude whole-cell extract utilizing the endogenous SL RNA and synthetic tubulin pre-mRNA were used to reconstitute the...
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