Please hold—the next available exon will be right with you
Karla M Neugebauer
The author is at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany. neugebau@mpi-cbg.de
A major challenge in gene expression is to understand how precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) processing events are integrated with transcription. A recent study suggests that distant exons in nascent RNA are held together during transcription, promoting accurate splicing independent of intron fate.
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