mRNA Splicing

NDSU Virtual Cell Animations Project animation 'mRNA Splicing'. For more information please see http://vcell.ndsu.edu/animations

Before being used in translation, mRNA must be spliced. During splicing, introns are removed and the translatable exons that remain are spliced into a single strand of mRNA.

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Education

Tags:

• mRNA
• cellular
• biology

[betteronblondes]

the only downside to this video is the weird, creepy music in the beginning. Other than that, extremely helpful.

[namemydoglola]

Youtube teaches me better than my 15k a semester top 40 school ever could.....how sad.

[ArtsyPetals]

i watched this vid about and hour and a half ago and was like wtf. Watched so more random vids on dna and rna, came back and was like i kinda get this sh*t now.

[acynosure]

It'll be more useful if they point out which one is U1, U2, U4, U5, and U6

[whiterose855]

@soccerchic315 through the process of alternative splicing. a single primary transcript can be spliced into different mRNAs by the inclusion of different sets of exons.

[samiya630]

if you can also explain the lariat loop formation it'll be great i always tend to forget exactly what happens

[samiya630]

@DDhannique these are actually the bases where splicing occurs there are many other AG and Gu sequences within the intron but the splicing occurs here

[MrDonMillie]

@soccerchic315 alternative splicing. different exon combinations will form different proteins from the same pre-mRNA

[DDhannique]

Is GU and AG the only bases fond at the end of introns?

Does this mean the splice site is constant?

[soccerchic315]

so how does this make it possible to have 100,000 proteins with only 30,000 genes?

[Irxoad]

Una figata assurda :O