"Trans-Splicing" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The joining of RNA from two different genes. One type of trans-splicing is the "spliced leader" type (primarily found in protozoans such as trypanosomes and in lower invertebrates such as nematodes) which results in the addition of a capped, noncoding, spliced leader sequence to the 5' end of mRNAs. Another type of trans-splicing is the "discontinuous group II introns" type (found in plant/algal chloroplasts and plant mitochondria) which results in the joining of two independently transcribed coding sequences. Both are mechanistically similar to conventional nuclear pre-mRNA cis-splicing. Mammalian cells are also capable of trans-splicing.
| Descriptor ID |
D020040
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G02.111.760.700.750 G03.839.700.750 G05.308.700.700.750
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| Concept/Terms |
Trans-Splicing- Trans-Splicing
- Trans Splicing
- Splicing, Trans
- RNA Trans-Splicing
- RNA Trans Splicing
- Trans-Splicings, RNA
- Trans RNA Splicing
- RNA Splicing, Trans
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