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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). Pre-mRNA Splicing in Yeast. In: Eckstein, F., Lilley, D.M.J. (eds) Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology. Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83709-8_13
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