Spliceosomal introns in the deep-branching eukaryote Trichomonas vaginalis
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Spliceosomal introns in the deep-branching eukaryote Trichomonas vaginalis.
Eukaryotes have evolved elaborate splicing mechanisms to remove introns that would otherwise destroy the protein-coding capacity of genes. Nuclear premRNA splicing requires sequence motifs in the intron and is mediated by a ribonucleoprotein complex, the spliceosome. Here we demonstrate the presence of a splicing apparatus in the protist Trichomonas vaginalis and show that RNA motifs found in y...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0407500102