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The removal of introns from the primary transcript occurs by RNA splicing. Three major types of RNAs; tRNA, rRNA and mRNA, are known to contain introns. There are two general questions concerning any splicing mechanism: first, how is the precise recognition and alignment of the splice junctions achieved in introns whose lengths vary from a few hundred nucleotides to several thousands of nucleotides, and second, what are the biochemical mechanisms of the cleavage and ligation reactions.
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Vijayraghavan, U., Abelson, J. (1989). Yeast pre-mRNA Splicing Mutants. In: Grunberg-Manago, M., Clark, B.F.C., Zachau, H.G. (eds) Evolutionary Tinkering in Gene Expression. NATO ASI Series, vol 169. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5664-6_18
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