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Abstract
Two recent papers, one from the Staley laboratory (Koodathingal and colleagues) and the other from the Cheng laboratory (Tseng and colleagues), show that the RNA-dependent ATPase Prp16, which is required for the second step of splicing, acts to reject slowly splicing pre-mRNAs immediately before the first catalytic reaction in pre-mRNA splicing. The results answer long-investigated questions about the actions of Prp16 and provide a wealth of molecular details on the proofreading process in pre-mRNA splicing. The discussion here reviews and integrates the results of the two papers and describes the implications for proofreading in splicing.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21357751 PMCID: PMC3062167 DOI: 10.1261/rna.2577511
Source DB: PubMed Journal: RNA ISSN: 1355-8382 Impact factor: 4.942