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How does the spliceosome know where to splice on the RNA strand? It will remove the introns and splice the exons together but how does it know where to slice?
Spliceosome "cut and paste" introns and exons
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Nucleotide sequences in the mRNA that bind specific protein factors guide the spliceosome to select the proper splice sites: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26887/#_A1017_
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Thank You! The book you referenced is awesome. DNA/RNA protein synthesis is spooky amazing to me.
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