Splicing double: Insights from the second spliceosome

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Patel, AA [1 ]
Steitz, JA [1 ]
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[1] Yale Univ, Sch Med, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Dept Mol Biophys & Biochem, New Haven, CT 06536 USA
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10.1038/nrm1259
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Q2 [细胞生物学];
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071009 ; 090102 ;
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Almost 20 years after the discovery of introns and RNA splicing, a second spliceosome was uncovered. Although this new spliceosome is structurally and functionally analogous to the well-characterized major-class splicing apparatus, it mediates the excision of a minor class of evolutionarily conserved introns that have non-canonical consensus sequences. This unanticipated diversity in the splicing machinery is refining both the mechanistic understanding and evolutionary models of RNA splicing.
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