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intron: a standalone construct

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intron1 CONSTRUCTIntronGILBERT · 1978

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Molecular biology

The part of a gene spliced out before translation

In molecular biology, an intron is a segment of a gene that is transcribed into the primary RNA but then removed by splicing, so it does not appear in the mature messenger RNA or the protein; the retained segments are exons. Gilbert's 1978 Why genes in pieces? coined the terms intron and exon and raised the question of why eukaryotic genes are interrupted. The referent is a spliced-out stretch of a split gene, defined by its removal during RNA processing and measured by the splice sites that bound it and the sequence lost between transcript and mature message.[1]

Unit
The length and splice-site boundaries of the removed, non-coding segment
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Identified by comparing genomic sequence to mature mRNA, locating the splice donor and acceptor sites that bound the removed segment

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References

  1. Gilbert, W. (1978). Why genes in pieces? Nature, 271(5645), 501. https://doi.org/10.1038/271501a0

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