Spliceosome
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A spliceosome is a large ribonucleoprotein complex found primarily within the nucleus of eukaryotic cells. The spliceosome is assembled from small nuclear RNAs and numerous proteins. Small nuclear RNA
Spliceosomal splicing cycle
Figure 1. Above are electron microscopy fields of negatively stained yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) tri-snRNPs. Below left is a schematic illustration of the interaction of tri-snRNP proteins with the U4/U6 snRNA duplex. Below right is a cartoon model of the yeast tri-snRNP with shaded areas corresponding to U5 (gray), U4/U6 (orange) and the linker region (yellow).
Minor spliceosome
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The minor spliceosome is a ribonucleoprotein complex that catalyses the removal of an atypical class of spliceosomal introns from messenger RNAs in some clades of eukaryotes. This process is called no
A comparison between major and minor splicing mechanisms
U1 and U11 can be folded similarly