Mrna Splice Junction

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 More General Terms 3 Additional Terms 4 References

Introduction

• Site of mRNA splicing.

• Consensus sequence

* C/A A G   G T A/G A G T . . . . . [T/C]>10  N C/T A G   G 
*         ^                                             ^ 
*         |                                             | 
*           <-------------- Intron ------------------->      
* Exon n                                                   Exon n+1

More General Terms

• biochemistry

Additional Terms

• RNA splicing
• spliceosome

References

Alperts et al Molecular Biology of the Cell, Garland Publishing, New York, NY 1989

mRNA splice junction