Melissa J. Moore is in the Department of Biochemistry,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, 415 South
Street, Waltham, Massachusetts, 02254-9110
, USA. mmoore@brandeis.edu
The molecular basis for the consensus sequence at the 3' ends of introns
in higher eukaryotes has now been elucidated. However, this discovery does
not explain all aspects of 3' splice site selection.
