Domestication of self-splicing introns during eukaryogenesis: the rise of the complex spliceosomal machinery

The spliceosome is a eukaryote-specific complex that is essential for the removal of introns from pre-mRNA. It consists of five small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs) and over a hundred proteins, making it one of the mos...

Source: Biology Direct - December 1, 2017 Category: Biology Authors: Julian Vosseberg and Berend Snel Tags: Review Source Type: research