Rna sequence from dna template

The RNA chain produced by transcription—the transcript —is therefore elongated one nucleotide at a time, and it has a nucleotide sequence that is exactly complementary to the strand of DNA used as the template Figure Transcription, however, differs from DNA replication in several crucial ways.

Instead, just behind the region where the ribonucleotides are being added, the RNA chain is displaced and the DNA helix re-forms. A DNA molecule in a human chromosome can be up to million nucleotide -pairs long; in contrast, most RNAs are no more than a few thousand nucleotides long, and many are considerably shorter. The enzymes that perform transcription are called RNA polymerases.

Like the DNA polymerase that catalyzes DNA replication discussed in Chapter 5 , RNA polymerases catalyze the formation of the phosphodiester bonds that link the nucleotides together to form a linear chain. The RNA polymerase moves stepwise along the DNA, unwinding the DNA helix just ahead of the active site for polymerization to expose a new region of the template strand for complementary base -pairing.

When RNA polymerase molecules follow hard on each other's heels in this way, each moving at about 20 nucleotides per second the speed in eucaryotes , over a thousand transcripts can be synthesized in an hour from a single gene. Transcription of two genes as observed under the electron microscope. The micrograph shows many molecules of RNA polymerase simultaneously transcribing each of two adjacent genes.

Although RNA polymerase catalyzes essentially the same chemical reaction as DNA polymerase , there are some important differences between the two enzymes. First, and most obvious, RNA polymerase catalyzes the linkage of ribonucleotides, not deoxyribonucleotides. This difference may exist because transcription need not be as accurate as DNA replication see Table , p. RNA polymerases make about one mistake for every 10 4 nucleotides copied into RNA compared with an error rate for direct copying by DNA polymerase of about one in 10 7 nucleotides , and the consequences of an error in RNA transcription are much less significant than that in DNA replication.

If the incorrect ribonucleotide is added to the growing RNA chain, the polymerase can back up, and the active site of the enzyme can perform an excision reaction that mimics the reverse of the polymerization reaction, except that water instead of pyrophosphate is used see Figure RNA polymerase hovers around a misincorporated ribonucleotide longer than it does for a correct addition, causing excision to be favored for incorrect nucleotides.

However, RNA polymerase also excises many correct bases as part of the cost for improved accuracy. The majority of genes carried in a cell's DNA specify the amino acid sequence of proteins; the RNA molecules that are copied from these genes which ultimately direct the synthesis of proteins are called messenger RNA mRNA molecules. The final product of a minority of genes, however, is the RNA itself. Careful analysis of the complete DNA sequence of the genome of the yeast S.

These RNAs, like proteins, serve as enzymatic and structural components for a wide variety of processes in the cell. In Chapter 5 we encountered one of those RNAs, the template carried by the enzyme telomerase. Each transcribed segment of DNA is called a transcription unit.

In eucaryotes, a transcription unit typically carries the information of just one gene , and therefore codes for either a single RNA molecule or a single protein or group of related proteins if the initial RNA transcript is spliced in more than one way to produce different mRNAs.

In bacteria, a set of adjacent genes is often trans-cribed as a unit; the resulting mRNA molecule therefore carries the information for several distinct proteins. Overall, RNA makes up a few percent of a cell's dry weight.

The mRNA population is made up of tens of thousands of different species, and there are on average only 10—15 molecules of each species of mRNA present in each cell. To transcribe a gene accurately, RNA polymerase must recognize where on the genome to start and where to finish. The way in which RNA polymerases perform these tasks differs somewhat between bacteria and eucaryotes.

Because the process in bacteria is simpler, we look there first. The initiation of transcription is an especially important step in gene expression because it is the main point at which the cell regulates which proteins are to be produced and at what rate. Bacterial RNA polymerase is a multisubunit complex. RNA polymerase molecules adhere only weakly to the bacterial DNA when they collide with it, and a polymerase molecule typically slides rapidly along the long DNA molecule until it dissociates again.

However, when the polymerase slides into a region on the DNA double helix called a promoter , a special sequence of nucleotides indicating the starting point for RNA synthesis, it binds tightly to it. The transcription cycle of bacterial RNA polymerase. The polymerase unwinds the DNA at the position at which transcription more After the RNA polymerase binds tightly to the promoter DNA in this way, it opens up the double helix to expose a short stretch of nucleotides on each strand Step 2 in Figure Instead, the polymerase and DNA both undergo reversible structural changes that result in a more energetically favorable state.

With the DNA unwound, one of the two exposed DNA strands acts as a template for complementary base -pairing with incoming ribonucleotides see Figure , two of which are joined together by the polymerase to begin an RNA chain. Several structural features of bacterial RNA polymerase make it particularly adept at performing the transcription cycle just described. With the polymerase now functioning in its elongation mode, a rudder-like structure in the enzyme continuously pries apart the DNA-RNA hybrid formed.

We can view the series of conformational changes that takes place during transcription initiation as a successive tightening of the enzyme around the DNA and RNA to ensure that it does not dissociate before it has finished transcribing a gene.

If an RNA polymerase does dissociate prematurely, it cannot resume synthesis but must start over again at the promoter. The structure of a bacterial RNA polymerase. This RNA polymerase is formed from four different subunits, indicated by different colors right. How do the signals in the DNA termination signals stop the elongating polymerase?

As the polymerase transcribes across a terminator , the hairpin may help to wedge open the movable flap on the RNA polymerase and release the RNA transcript from the exit tunnel.

At the same time, the DNA-RNA hybrid in the active site , which is held together predominantly by U-A base pairs which are less stable than G -C base pairs because they form two rather than three hydrogen bonds per base pair , is not sufficiently strong enough to hold the RNA in place, and it dissociates causing the release of the polymerase from the DNA, perhaps by forcing open its jaws.

Thus, in some respects, transcription termination seems to involve a reversal of the structural transitions that happen during initiation. The process of termination also is an example of a common theme in this chapter: the ability of RNA to fold into specific structures figures prominantly in many aspects of decoding the genome. As we have just seen, the processes of transcription initiation and termination involve a complicated series of structural transitions in protein , DNA , and RNA molecules.

It is perhaps not surprising that the signals encoded in DNA that specify these transitions are difficult for researchers to recognize. Indeed, a comparison of many different bacterial promoters reveals that they are heterogeneous in DNA sequence. These common features are often summarized in the form of a consensus sequence Figure In general, a consensus nucleotide sequence is derived by comparing many sequences with the same basic function and tallying up the most common nucleotide found at each position.

Consensus sequence for the major class of E. A The promoters are characterized by two hexameric DNA sequences, the sequence and the sequence named for their approximate location relative to the start point of transcription designated more One reason that individual bacterial promoters differ in DNA sequence is that the precise sequence determines the strength or number of initiation events per unit time of the promoter. Evolutionary processes have thus fine-tuned each promoter to initiate as often as necessary and have created a wide spectrum of promoters.

Promoters for genes that code for abundant proteins are much stronger than those associated with genes that encode rare proteins, and their nucleotide sequences are responsible for these differences. Like bacterial promoters, transcription terminators also include a wide range of sequences, with the potential to form a simple RNA structure being the most important common feature.

Since an almost unlimited number of nucleotide sequences have this potential, terminator sequences are much more heterogeneous than those of promoters. We have discussed bacterial promoters and terminators in some detail to illustrate an important point regarding the analysis of genome sequences.

Although we know a great deal about bacterial promoters and terminators and can develop consensus sequences that summarize their most salient features, their variation in nucleotide sequence makes it difficult for researchers even when aided by powerful computers to definitively locate them simply by inspection of the nucleotide sequence of a genome. When we encounter analogous types of sequences in eucaryotes, the problem of locating them is even more difficult.

Often, additional information, some of it from direct experimentation, is needed to accurately locate the short DNA signals contained in genomes. Promoter sequences are asymmetric see Figure , and this feature has important consequences for their arrangement in genomes.

However a gene typically has only a single promoter , and because the nucleotide sequences of bacterial as well as eucaryotic promoters are asymmetric the polymerase can bind in only one orientation.

The choice of template strand for each gene is therefore determined by the location and orientation of the promoter. The importance of RNA polymerase orientation.

Directions of transcription along a short portion of a bacterial chromosome. Some genes are transcribed using one DNA strand as a template, while others are transcribed using the other DNA strand. The direction of transcription is determined by the promoter more Having considered transcription in bacteria, we now turn to the situation in eucaryotes, where the synthesis of RNA molecules is a much more elaborate affair.

The three polymerases are structurally similar to one another and to the bacterial enzyme. They share some common subunits and many structural features, but they transcribe different types of genes Table RNA polymerase II transcribes the vast majority of genes, including all those that encode proteins, and our subsequent discussion therefore focuses on this enzyme.

Although eucaryotic RNA polymerase II has many structural similarities to bacterial RNA polymerase Figure , there are several important differences in the way in which the bacterial and eucaryotic enzymes function, two of which concern us immediately.

Regions of the two RNA polymerases that have similar structures are indicated in green. The eucaryotic polymerase is larger than the bacterial enzyme 12 subunits more They require the help of a large set of proteins called general transcription factors , which must assemble at the promoter with the polymerase before the polymerase can begin transcription.

Eucaryotic transcription initiation must deal with the packing of DNA into nucleosomes and higher order forms of chromatin structure, features absent from bacterial chromosomes. The discovery that, unlike bacterial RNA polymerase , purified eucaryotic RNA polymerase II could not initiate transcription in vitro led to the discovery and purification of the additional factors required for this process.

These general transcription factors help to position the RNA polymerase correctly at the promoter , aid in pulling apart the two strands of DNA to allow transcription to begin, and release RNA polymerase from the promoter into the elongation mode once transcription has begun.

Figure shows how the general transcription factors assemble in vitro at promoters used by RNA polymerase II. The TATA box is typically located 25 nucleotides upstream from the transcription start site. It is not the only DNA sequence that signals the start of transcription Figure , but for most polymerase II promoters, it is the most important. This distortion is thought to serve as a physical landmark for the location of an active promoter in the midst of a very large genome , and it brings DNA sequences on both sides of the distortion together to allow for subsequent protein assembly steps.

Other factors are then assembled, along with RNA polymerase II, to form a complete transcription initiation complex see Figure The name given to each consensus sequence first column and the general transcription factor that recognizes it last column are indicated.

N indicates any nucleotide, more The unique DNA bending more After RNA polymerase II has been guided onto the promoter DNA to form a transcription initiation complex , it must gain access to the template strand at the transcription start point.

Next, like the bacterial polymerase, polymerase II remains at the promoter, synthesizing short lengths of RNA until it undergoes a conformational change and is released to begin transcribing a gene. This phosphorylation is also catalyzed by TFIIH, which, in addition to a helicase, contains a protein kinase as one of its subunits see Figure , D and E.

The polymerase can then disengage from the cluster of general transcription factors, undergoing a series of conformational changes that tighten its interaction with DNA and acquiring new proteins that allow it to transcribe for long distances without dissociating.

Once the polymerase II has begun elongating the RNA transcript , most of the general transcription factors are released from the DNA so that they are available to initiate another round of transcription with a new RNA polymerase molecule.

As we see shortly, the phosphorylation of the tail of RNA polymerase II also causes components of the RNA processing machinery to load onto the polymerase and thus be in position to modify the newly transcribed RNA as it emerges from the polymerase. The model for transcription initiation just described was established by studying the action of RNA polymerase II and its general transcription factors on purified DNA templates in vitro. However, as discussed in Chapter 4, DNA in eucaryotic cells is packaged into nucleosomes, which are further arranged in higher-order chromatin structures.

As a result, transcription initiation in a eucaryotic cell is more complex and requires more proteins than it does on purified DNA. First, gene regulatory proteins known as transcriptional activators bind to specific sequences in DNA and help to attract RNA polymerase II to the start point of transcription Figure This attraction is needed to help the RNA polymerase and the general transcription factors in overcoming the difficulty of binding to DNA that is packaged in chromatin.

We discuss the role of activators in Chapter 7, because they represent one of the main ways in which cells regulate expression of their genes. Here we simply note that their presence on DNA is required for transcription initiation in a eucaryotic cell.

Second, eucaryotic transcription initiation in vivo requires the presence of a protein complex known as the mediator , which allows the activator proteins to communicate properly with the polymerase II and with the general transcription factors. Finally, transcription initiation in the cell often requires the local recruitment of chromatin-modifying enzymes, including chromatin remodeling complexes and histone acetylases see Figure As discussed in Chapter 4, both types of enzymes can allow greater accessibility to the DNA present in chromatin, and by doing so, they facilitate the assembly of the transcription initiation machinery onto DNA.

Transcription initiation in vivo requires the presence of transcriptional activator proteins. As described in Chapter 7, these proteins bind to specific short sequences in DNA. Although more As illustrated in Figure , many proteins well over one hundred individual subunits must assemble at the start point of transcription to initiate transcription in a eucaryotic cell. The order of assembly of these proteins is probably different for different genes and therefore may not follow a prescribed pathway.

In fact, some of these different protein assemblies may interact with each other away from the DNA and be brought to DNA as preformed subcomplexes. For example, the mediator, RNA polymerase II, and some of the general transcription factors can bind to each other in the nucleoplasm and be brought to the DNA as a unit.

We return to this issue in Chapter 7, where we discuss the many ways eucaryotic cells can regulate the process of transcription initiation. Once it has initiated transcription, RNA polymerase does not proceed smoothly along a DNA molecule ; rather it moves jerkily, pausing at some sequences and rapidly transcribing through others. Elongating RNA polymerases, both bacterial and eucaryotic, are associated with a series of elongation factors , proteins that decrease the likelihood that RNA polymerase will dissociate before it reaches the end of a gene.

These factors typically associate with RNA polymerase shortly after initiation has occurred and help polymerases to move through the wide variety of different DNA sequences that are found in genes. Experiments have shown that bacterial polymerases, which never encounter nucleosomes in vivo , can nonetheless transcribe through them in vitro , suggesting that a nucleosome is easily traversed.

However, eucaryotic polymerases have to move through forms of chromatin that are more compact than a simple nucleosome. It therefore seems likely that they transcribe with the aid of chromatin remodeling complexes see pp. These complexes may move with the polymerase or may simply seek out and rescue the occasional stalled polymerase.

In addition, some elongation factors associated with eucaryotic RNA polymerase facilitate transcription through nucleosomes without requiring additional energy. It is not yet understood how this is accomplished, but these proteins may help to dislodge parts of the nucleosome core as the polymerase transcribes the DNA of a nucleosome.

There is yet another barrier to elongating polymerases, both bacterial and eucaryotic. To discuss this issue, we need first to consider a subtle property inherent in the DNA double helix called DNA supercoiling. DNA supercoiling represents a conformation that DNA will adopt in response to superhelical tension; conversely, creating various loops or coils in the helix can create such tension.

A simple way of visualizing the topological constraints that cause DNA supercoiling is illustrated in Figure A. There are approximately 10 nucleotide pairs for every helical turn in a DNA double helix. Imagine a helix whose two ends are fixed with respect to each other as they are in a DNA circle, such as a bacterial chromosome , or in a tightly clamped loop, as is thought to exist in eucaryotic chromosomes.

In this case, one large DNA supercoil will form to compensate for each 10 nucleotide pairs that are opened unwound. The formation of this supercoil is energetically favorable because it restores a normal helical twist to the base -paired regions that remain, which would otherwise need to be overwound because of the fixed ends.

A For a DNA molecule with one free end or a nick in one strand that serves as a swivel , the DNA double helix rotates by one turn for every 10 nucleotide pairs opened. B If rotation is prevented, more As long as the polymerase is not free to rotate rapidly and such rotation is unlikely given the size of RNA polymerases and their attached transcripts , a moving polymerase generates positive superhelical tension in the DNA in front of it and negative helical tension behind it.

For eucaryotes, this situation is thought to provide a bonus: the positive superhelical tension ahead of the polymerase makes the DNA helix more difficult to open, but this tension should facilitate the unwrapping of DNA in nucleosomes, as the release of DNA from the histone core helps to relax positive superhelical tension. Any protein that propels itself alone along a DNA strand of a double helix tends to generate superhelical tension.

In eucaryotes, DNA topoisomerase enzymes rapidly remove this superhelical tension see p. These are negative supercoils, having the opposite handedness from the positive supercoils that form when a region of DNA helix opens see Figure B. These negative supercoils are removed from bacterial DNA whenever a region of helix opens, reducing the superhelical tension.

DNA gyrase therefore makes the opening of the DNA helix in bacteria energetically favorable compared with helix opening in DNA that is not supercoiled. For this reason, it usually facilitates those genetic processes in bacteria, including the initiation of transcription by bacterial RNA polymerase , that require helix opening see Figure We have seen that bacterial mRNAs are synthesized solely by the RNA polymerase starting and stopping at specific spots on the genome.

The situation in eucaryotes is substantially different. In particular, transcription is only the first step in a series of reactions that includes the covalent modification of both ends of the RNA and the removal of intron sequences that are discarded from the middle of the RNA transcript by the process of RNA splicing Figure These special ends allow the cell to assess whether both ends of an mRNA molecule are present and the message is therefore intact before it exports the RNA sequence from the nucleus for translation into protein.

In Chapter 4, we saw that a typical eucaryotic gene is present in the genome as short blocks of protein-coding sequence exons separated by long introns, and RNA splicing is the critically important step in which the different portions of a protein coding sequence are joined together. As we describe next, RNA splicing also provides higher eucaryotes with the ability to synthesize several different proteins from the same gene. Summary of the steps leading from gene to protein in eucaryotes and bacteria.

The final level of a protein in the cell depends on the efficiency of each step and on the rates of degradation of the RNA and protein molecules. A In eucaryotic cells the more A comparison of the structures of procaryotic and eucaryotic mRNA molecules. These RNA processing steps are tightly coupled to transcription elongation by an ingenious mechanism.

This C-terminal domain of the largest subunit consists of a long tandem array of a repeated seven-amino- acid sequence, containing two serines per repeat that can be phosphorylated. Because there are 52 repeats in the CTD of human RNA polymerase II, its complete phosphorylation would add negatively charged phosphate groups to the polymerase. This phosphorylation step not only dissociates the RNA polymerase II from other proteins present at the start point of transcription, it also allows a new set of proteins to associate with the RNA polymerase tail that function in transcription elongation and pre- mRNA processing.

In the nucleus , the cap binds a protein complex called CBC cap-binding complex , which, as we discuss in subsequent sections, helps the RNA to be properly processed and exported.

As discussed in Chapter 4, the protein coding sequences of eucaryotic genes are typically interrupted by noncoding intervening sequences introns. Discovered in , this feature of eucaryotic genes came as a surprise to scientists, who had been, until that time, familiar only with bacterial genes, which typically consist of a continuous stretch of coding DNA that is directly transcribed into mRNA.

In marked contrast, eucaryotic genes were found to be broken up into small pieces of coding sequence expressed sequences or exons interspersed with much longer intervening sequences or introns ; thus the coding portion of a eucaryotic gene is often only a small fraction of the length of the gene Figure Structure of two human genes showing the arrangement of exons and introns. B The much more Both intron and exon sequences are transcribed into RNA. The vast majority of RNA splicing that takes place in cells functions in the production of mRNA , and our discussion of splicing focuses on this type.

Since the number of phosphate bonds remains the same, these reactions could in principle take place without nucleoside triphosphate hydrolysis. However, the machinery that catalyzes pre- mRNA splicing is complex , consisting of 5 additional RNA molecules and over 50 proteins, and it hydrolyzes many ATP molecules per splicing event.

This complexity is presumably needed to ensure that splicing is highly accurate, while also being sufficiently flexible to deal with the enormous variety of introns found in a typical eucaryotic cell.

Frequent mistakes in RNA splicing would severely harm the cell, as they would result in malfunctioning proteins. The RNA splicing reaction. It may seem wasteful to remove large numbers of introns by RNA splicing.

In attempting to explain why it occurs, scientists have pointed out that the exon - intron arrangement would seem to facilitate the emergence of new and useful proteins. Thus, the presence of numerous introns in DNA allows genetic recombination to readily combine the exons of different genes see p.

This idea is supported by the observation, described in Chapter 3, that many proteins in present-day cells resemble patchworks composed from a common set of protein pieces, called protein domains. RNA splicing also has a present-day advantage. We discuss additional examples of alternative splicing in Chapter 7, as this is also one of the mechanisms that cells use to change expression of their genes.

Rather than being the wasteful process it may have seemed at first sight, RNA splicing enables eucaryotes to increase the already enormous coding potential of their genomes. We shall return to this idea several times in this chapter and the next, but we first need to describe the cellular machinery that performs this remarkable task. The primary transcript can be spliced in different ways, as indicated in the more Introns range in size from about 10 nucleotides to over , nucleotides.

Picking out the precise borders of an intron is very difficult for scientists to do even with the aid of computers when confronted by a complete genome sequence of a eucaryote.

The possibility of alternative splicing compounds the problem of predicting protein sequences solely from a genome sequence. This difficulty constitutes one of the main barriers to identifying all of the genes in a complete genome sequence, and it is the primary reason that we know only the approximate number of genes in, for example, the human genome.

Yet each cell in our body recognizes and rapidly excises the appropriate intron sequences with high fidelity. In pre- mRNA splicing, each of these three sites has a consensus nucleotide sequence that is similar from intron to intron, providing the cell with cues on where splicing is to take place Figure However, there is enough variation in each sequence to make it very difficult for scientists to pick out all of the many splicing signals in a genome sequence.

The consensus nucleotide sequences in an RNA molecule that signal the beginning and the end of most introns in humans. Only the three blocks of nucleotide sequences shown are required to remove an intron sequence; the rest of the intron can be occupied more RNA molecules recognize intron - exon borders and participate in the chemistry of splicing.

The spliceosome is a dynamic machine; as we see below, it is assembled on pre- mRNA from separate components, and parts enter and leave it as the splicing reaction proceeds Figure In the course of splicing, the spliceosome undergoes several shifts in which one set of base-pair interactions is broken and another is formed in its place. It permits the checking and rechecking of RNA sequences before the chemical reaction is allowed to proceed, thereby increasing the accuracy of splicing.

The RNA splicing mechanism. RNA splicing is catalyzed by an assembly of snRNPs shown as colored circles plus other proteins most of which are not shown , which together constitute the spliceosome. The spliceosome recognizes the splicing signals on more Several of the rearrangements that take place in the spliceosome during pre-mRNA splicing.

Shown here are the details for the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae , in which the nucleotide sequences involved are slightly different from those in human cells. Although ATP hydrolysis is not required for the chemistry of RNA splicing per se , it is required for the stepwise assembly and rearrangements of the spliceosome. In all, more than 50 proteins, including those that form the snRNPs, are required for each splicing event.

One of the most important roles of these rearrangements is the creation of the active catalytic site of the spliceosome.

The strategy of creating an active site only after the assembly and rearrangement of splicing components on a pre-mRNA substrate is an important way of preventing wayward splicing. Perhaps the most surprising feature of the spliceosome is the nature of the catalytic site itself: it is largely if not exclusively formed by RNA molecules instead of proteins.

Once the splicing chemistry is completed, the snRNPs remain bound to the lariat and the spliced product is released. As we have seen, intron sequences vary enormously in size, with some being in excess of , nucleotides. If splice-site selection were determined solely by the snRNPs acting on a preformed, protein -free RNA molecule , we would expect splicing mistakes—such as exon skipping and the use of cryptic splice sites—to be very common Figure Two types of splicing errors.

Both types might be expected to occur frequently if splice-site selection were performed by the spliceosome on a preformed, protein-free RNA molecule. The fidelity mechanisms built into the spliceosome are supplemented by two additional factors that help ensure that splicing occurs accurately.

This feature helps to prevent inappropriate exon skipping. Exon size tends to be much more uniform than intron size, averaging about nucleotide pairs across a wide variety of eucaryotic organisms Figure This assembly takes place in conjunction with the U1 snRNA , which marks one exon boundary, and U2AF, which initially helps to specify the other. By specifically marking the exons in this way, the cell increases the accuracy with which the initial splicing components are deposited on the nascent RNA and thereby helps to avoid cryptic splice sites.

How the SR proteins discriminate exon sequences from intron sequences is not understood; however, it is known that some of the SR proteins bind preferentially to RNA sequences in specific exons. In principle, the redundancy in the genetic code could have been exploited during evolution to select for binding sites for SR proteins in exons, allowing these sites to be created without constraining amino acid sequences.

Variation in intron and exon lengths in the human, worm, and fly genomes. A Size distribution of exons. B Size distribution of introns. Note that exon length is much more uniform than intron length.

Adapted from International Human Genome Sequencing more The exon definition hypothesis. This demarcation of exons by the SR proteins occurs co-transcriptionally, more However, the actual chemistry of splicing can take place much later. This delay means that intron sequences are not necessarily removed from a pre- mRNA molecule in the order in which they occur along the RNA chain. It also means that, although spliceosome assembly is co-transcriptional, the splicing reactions sometimes occur posttranscriptionally—that is, after a complete pre-mRNA molecule has been made.

However, more complex eucaryotes such as flies, mammals, and plants have a second set of snRNPs that direct the splicing of a small fraction of their intron sequences. The recent discovery of this class of snRNPs gives us confidence in the base -pair interactions deduced for the major spliceosome, because it provides an independent set of molecules that undergo the same RNA-RNA interactions despite differences in the RNA sequences involved.

Outline of the mechanisms used for three types of RNA splicing. During the process of transcription, one of the two strands in the double stranded DNA serves as a template strand. Where as the other strand which is present in the DNA, other than the template strand is known as coding strand. Template strand is responsible for the sequencing amino acid for synthezing the polypeptide chain. The main difference to be considered between the coding and template strand is that the template strand serves as the template for the transcription where the coding strand contains the exact and the same sequence of the nucleotides in mRNA, expect the nucleotide thymine.

The two strands of the molecule of DNA are separated from one another by exposing the nitrogenous bases. Only one of the strands is actively used as a template in the process of transcription. The strand which is used as a template is also known as template strand or sense strand. The complementary strand of the DNA is the one which is not used and is called as the nonsense strand or the antisense strand. The RNA sequence which is made up of a direct copy of the nitrogenous bases in the template strand.

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