Summary: 1
CLASS 3.7: 04/05/07
RNA SPLICING AND PROCESSING
A. Splicing Nuclear Protein-Coding Pre-RNAs:
- Most genes
- As pre-mRNA (hnRNA)
is synthesized,
- Recall that
1. Splice junctions
a. Are short cis-acting sequence elements
- Occur at
- No extensive homology
- Are well conserved
[---exonAG][GUAAGU---intron---12(Py)NCAG][exon---]
· GU =
· AG =
- GU-AG =
- GC-AG ~
- AU-AC ~
- Other sequences

Source: Andres, Andrew - School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada at Las Vegas

Collections: Biology and Medicine