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Intrinsic metal binding by a spliceosomal RNA
Saba Valadkhan
& James L. Manley
Saba Valadkhan and James L. Manley are in the Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA. jlm2@columbia.edu
A conserved stem-loop in the spliceosomal U6 snRNA is thought to play an important role in splicing of mRNA precursors. Recent work describes structural features of this stem-loop and highlights the significance of a previously noted catalytically important metal ion.
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