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Metal ghosts in the splicing machine

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Chemical analysis of the spliceosome's active site reveals that it is the RNA components of this enzyme complex that coordinate the catalytic metal ions responsible for production of a spliced messenger RNA. See Article p.229

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Figure 1: Active sites of group II introns and the spliceosome.

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