The spliceosome is best known for shepherding primary messenger RNA transcripts to maturity. This enzyme complex also contributes to the synthesis of an enzyme that maintains chromosome ends.
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Bonnal, S., Valcárcel, J. Spliceosome meets telomerase. Nature 456, 879–880 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/456879a
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