Article
Mechanism for cryptic splice site activation during pre-mRNA splicing.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Aug 1990
Nelson K K, Green M R
Abstract excerpt
The 5' splice site of a pre-mRNA is recognized by U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles (snRNP) through base pairing with the 5' end of U1 small nuclear RNA (snRNA). Single-base substitutions within a 9-nucleotide 5'-splice-site sequence can abolish or attenuate use of that site and, in higher eukaryotes, can also activate nearby "cryptic" 5' splice sites. Here we show that the effects of single-base...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cell Line
- Globins
- Humans
- Introns
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- RNA Precursors
- RNA Splicing
- Ribonucleoproteins
- Ribonucleoproteins, Small Nuclear
