Volume 23, No 9, Sep 2013

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 23 Issue 9, September 2013: 1071-1072

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Exo-endo trans splicing: a new way to link

Christian Preußer¹ and Albrecht Bindereif¹

¹Institute of Biochemistry, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, D-35392 Giessen, Germany Correspondence: Albrecht Bindereif, Tel: 49-641-9935 420; Fax: 49-641-9935 419(albrecht.bindereif@chemie.bio.uni-giessen.de)

In addition to canonical cis splicing, which joins exons from a single pre-mRNA, various forms of trans splicing have been described, whereby two separate precursor transcripts are linked with each other. A new study by Hu et al. in Cell Research characterizes a novel and unusual splicing variation, called exo-endo trans splicing.

10.1038/cr.2013.105

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