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    methods of RNA splicing occur in nature; the type of splicing depends on the structure of the spliced intron and the catalysts required for splicing to occur...
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    Alternative splicing, alternative RNA splicing, or differential splicing, is an alternative splicing process during gene expression that allows a single...
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  • Small nuclear RNA (snRNA) is a class of small RNA molecules that are found within the splicing speckles and Cajal bodies of the cell nucleus in eukaryotic...
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  • Intron (category RNA splicing)
    Exon mRNA Eukaryotic chromosome fine structure Small t intron Splicing: Alternative splicing Exitron Minor spliceosome Outron Function MicroRNA Others:...
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  • tRNAs. Whereas "normal" (cis-)splicing processes a single molecule, trans-splicing generates a single RNA transcript from multiple separate pre-mRNAs....
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    process, RNA splicing removes the non-coding RNA introns leaving behind the exons, which are then spliced and joined together to form the mature mRNA. Splicing...
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    chemical structure of the RNA molecule: the addition of a 5' cap, the addition of a 3' polyadenylated tail, and RNA splicing. Such processing is vital...
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    process of RNA splicing, leaving only exons, regions that will encode the protein. This exon sequence constitutes mature mRNA. Mature mRNA is then read...
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    3'-polyadenylation, and alternative splicing. In particular, alternative splicing directly contributes to the diversity of mRNA found in cells. The modifications...
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    Ribozyme (redirect from Catalytic RNA)
    (ribonucleic acid enzymes) are RNA molecules that have the ability to catalyze specific biochemical reactions, including RNA splicing in gene expression, similar...
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    Exon (category RNA splicing)
    will form a part of the final mature RNA produced by that gene after introns have been removed by RNA splicing. The term exon refers to both the DNA...
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  • hESCs by ensuring genes undergo RNA splicing to create a mature RNA transcript. The SON gene is required for RNA splicing of transcripts encoding the cell-cycle...
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  • of Cis-acting RNA elements that influence exons inclusion or exclusion during splicing. These sites are referred to as exonic splicing enhancers (ESEs)...
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    Spliceosome (category RNA splicing)
    either sites of mRNA splicing or storage sites of mRNA splicing factors. It is now understood that nuclear speckles help concentrate splicing factors near...
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    organization of the gene-expression machinery splicing snRNPs and other splicing proteins necessary for pre-mRNA processing. Because of a cell's changing requirements...
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  • to be removed after transcription through a process termed RNA splicing. Splicing of RNA transcripts requires a highly precise and coordinated sequence...
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    (ATP) or guanosine triphosphate (GTP). Normally, splicing is associated only with pre-mRNA splicing. This precursor protein contains three segments—an...
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    the protein product. The spliceosome, a protein-RNA complex located in the nucleus, catalyzes splicing in the following manner: The spliceosome recognizes...
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    generally not considered. (For that, see Proteoforms.) Through RNA splicing mechanisms, mRNA has the ability to select different protein-coding segments...
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    BZIP intron plant (category RNA splicing)
    R.; Rothstein, S. J.; Howell, S. H. (2011). "Heat induces the splicing by IRE1 of a mRNA encoding a transcription factor involved in the unfolded protein...
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    SR protein (section Splicing)
    alternative pre-mRNA splicing, mRNA export, genome stabilization, nonsense-mediated decay, and translation. SR proteins alternatively splice pre-mRNA by preferentially...
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  • an exonic splicing enhancer (ESE) is a DNA sequence motif consisting of 6 bases within an exon that directs, or enhances, accurate splicing of heterogeneous...
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  • alternative splicing is best seen in the sex determination of D. melanogaster. The Tra gene, determinant of sex, in male flies becomes truncated as splicing events...
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    initiate RNA splicing. These genes have the DNA base pairs AC and TG as repeated sequences at the ends of each intron. On the 3'ss (3' splicing site), the...
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    U2 snRNA has been theorized to serve a catalytic role in the chemistry of pre-RNA splicing as well. Similar to ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs), Sm snRNAs must...
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    pre-mRNA, and various other proteins to assemble a spliceosome, a large RNA-protein molecular complex upon which splicing of pre-mRNA occurs. Splicing, or...
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    mRNA transcripts, RNA-Seq can look at different populations of RNA to include total RNA, small RNA, such as miRNA, tRNA, and ribosomal profiling. RNA-Seq...
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    can also modify the splicing of pre-mRNA or inhibit the maturation and activity of miRNA. Techniques for targeting Morpholinos to RNAs and delivering Morpholinos...
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    molecule. RNA editing is relatively rare, with common forms of RNA processing (e.g. splicing, 5'-capping, and 3'-polyadenylation) not usually considered...
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    defective RNA. Splicing ribozymes catalyze RNA splicing, removing a section of RNA that contains a mutation and replacing it with well-functioning RNA. Existing...
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