Alternative splicing, a clever way a cell generates many different variations of messenger RNAs - single-stranded RNAs involved in protein synthesis - and proteins from the same stretch of DNA ...

Before protein synthesis can proceed, noncoding regions (introns) of mRNA must be removed and the coding regions (exons) joined together. Sign up for C&EN's must-read weekly newsletter Email Address * ...

Protein synthesis in nerve cell dendrites underlies long-term memory formation in the brain, among other functions. Knowing how proteins are made to order at the synapse can help researchers ...

If pseudo splice sites are used instead of the correct splice sites during protein synthesis, the resulting mRNA will contain the wrong instructions – cryptic splicing – that could alter ...

Protein splicing is a naturally occurring post‐translational process in which inteins, as self‐excising protein segments, precisely remove themselves from a host polypeptide and concomitantly ...

When the genetic code is transcribed into RNA for protein synthesis, alternative splicing can lead to the production of different transcripts from the same gene, depending on the selected genetic ...

Although we have long known that this signal strongly inhibits protein synthesis in general, during hemoglobin gene expression it first plays its indispensable, positive role before being turned ...