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Evidence for an essential non-Watson-Crick interaction between the first and last nucleotides of a nuclear pre-mRNA intron.
Nature - 18 Feb 1993
Parker R, Siliciano P G
Abstract excerpt
Nuclear pre-messenger RNA splicing requires the action of five small nuclear (sn) RNAs, U1, U2, U4, U5 and U6, and more than 50 proteins. The mechanistic similarity of nuclear pre-mRNA splicing and group II self-splicing suggests that many of the central processes of nuclear pre-mRNA splicing are based on RNA-RNA interaction. To understand the mechanism of pre-mRNA splicing, the interactions, and their temporal...
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