A complex of snRNA and protein subunits that removes introns from a transcribed pre-mRNA (hnRNA) segment.
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What are the different ways an exon gets spliced?
Exons are produced by more than one mechanism, e.g. splicing out introns after transcription, if I remember correctly. Please list all mechanisms.
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Is exon order always preserved in splicing?
Are there any cases in which the splicing machinery constructs an mRNA in which the exons are not in the 5' -> 3' genomic order? I'm interested any such cases, whether they involve constitutive or ...