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Visualizing group II intron catalysis through the stages of splicing.
Cell - 26 Oct 2012
Marcia Marco, Pyle Anna Marie
Abstract excerpt
Group II introns are self-splicing ribozymes that share a reaction mechanism and a common ancestor with the eukaryotic spliceosome, thereby providing a model system for understanding the chemistry of pre-mRNA splicing. Here we report 14 crystal structures of a group II intron at different stages of catalysis. We provide a detailed mechanism for the first step of splicing, we describe a reversible conformational...
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