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It is absolutely vital that the splicing complex accurately recognizes exon-intron-exon junctions so the needed cuts ... and reject a precursor mRNA with a non-authentic splice site,” explains Prof.

In the first step of spliceosome assembly, an snRNA molecule known as U1 snRNA binds to the 5' splice site at the beginning of the intron. Until now, it had been thought that the binding strength ...

the researchers obtained the structure of the U11 snRNP complex and revealed how it recognises the "5' splice site" -- the starting point of an intron -- to initiate the editing process at this ...

the researchers obtained the structure of the U11 snRNP complex and revealed how it recognises the "5' splice site" – the starting point of an intron – to initiate the editing process at this ...

Splicing is the ... an acceptor site, or neither. "Our algorithm attempts to recognize these donor/acceptor sites in pairs, just as a spliceosome 'molecular machine' does in the cell when it cuts out ...

During splicing, the spliceosome assembles on the pre-mRNA molecule and brings together the donor site at the 5' end of the intron and the acceptor site at the 3' end of the intron. The intron is then ...

The scientists presented their work in Nature Communications, in an article titled, “Targeting the conserved active site of splicing machines ... structures of intron-ligand complexes.

Mol. Cell, 2018; Nat Commun 2021). Splicing modulators that bind SF3B1 act as competitive antagonists of the branch site, in a manner dependent on the intron’s sequence (Cretu et al., Mol. Cell, 2018; ...

This intron also marked the first identification of a ribozyme ... of Group II introns—utilizing the inverse splicing reaction to connect the 5' splice site of one RNA end with the 3' splice site of ...

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