Group II introns deleted for multiple substructures retain self-splicing activity.
Koch J, Boulanger S, Dib-Hajj S, Hebbar S, Perlman P. Group II introns deleted for multiple substructures retain self-splicing activity. Molecular And Cellular Biology 1992, 12: 1950-1958. PMID: 1569932, PMCID: PMC364365, DOI: 10.1128/mcb.12.5.1950.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGroup II intronsSplice site selectionSelf-splicing activitySplice junctionsDomain 2Domain 5Domain 1Essential catalytic coreYeast mitochondrial DNASecondary structure elementsCoxI geneSelf-splicing reactionMitochondrial DNAPrecursor RNAMutant intronsCatalytic coreIntron domainsTriple deletionIntronsTrans assaySingle deletionSecondary structureDomain 6DeletionStructure elements