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Romancing the Spliceosome to Fight Spinal Muscular Atrophy Author: Kathryn J. Swoboda, M.D. Author Info & Affiliations Published October 30, 2014 N Engl J Med 2014;371: 1752 - 1754 ...
The major spliceosome is abundant in cells and has been extensively investigated for more than four decades. Its long-separated twin – the minor spliceosome, is much more scarce and remains enigmatic, ...
Structural basis of 5′ splice site recognition by the minor spliceosome. Molecular Cell, 2025; 85 (3): 652 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2024.12.017 ...
The spliceosome cuts out unnecessary sequences of freshly transcribed RNA called introns and joins together the remaining sections to form messenger RNA (mRNA). The variable way that the ...
Article Open access Published: 05 July 2016 A spliceosome intermediate with loosely associated tri-snRNP accumulates in the absence of Prp28 ATPase activity Carsten Boesler, Norbert Rigo, Maria M ...
After a decade of work, scientists have completed a molecular model of the human spliceosome, an incredibly complex cellular machine. When an active gene is expressed in a cell, it is transcribed into ...
It is a complicated complex, made up of four major parts and more than 100 accessory proteins that come together and break apart throughout the splicing process. Think of the spliceosome as an old ...
The spliceosome edits genetic messages transcribed from DNA, allowing cells to create different versions of a protein from a single gene. The vast majority of human genes – more than nine in ten ...
The Spliceosome Comes Assembled Graphic: Courtesy of Scott Stevens ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS: In the penta-snRNP model, all five spliceosomal snRNPs interact with the substrate pre-mRNA as a single, ...
The spliceosome does the genetic cutting and pasting. It is a complicated complex, made up of four major parts and more than 100 accessory proteins that come together and break apart throughout ...