Alternative splicing--when two's a crowd.
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Abstract
Various mechanisms have been proposed to explain mutually exclusive splicing of pairs of exons. A paper in this issue of Cell (Graveley, 2005) provides a fascinating insight into the perplexing question of how only one exon at a time is chosen from an array of 48 exons in the Drosophila Dscam gene.
Medical subject headings
- Alternative Splicing
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Drosophila Proteins
- Exons
- Gene Expression Regulation