In absence of Ca2+, 

the hinges can flex, the structure becomes floppy & adhesion fails

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Steric Hindrance and Combinations of Major and Minor Splice Sites are major reasons behind alternative splicing (Mutually Exclusive Splicing) 

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Alternative splicing is often associated with weak splice sites.

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Binding of SR proteins to ESEs promotes or stabilizes U1 binding to the 5’ splice site and U2AF binding to the 3’ splice site.

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The Nova and Fox families of RNA-binding proteins can promote or suppress splice site selection in a context-dependent fashion.

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Trans-splicing is rare in multicellular eukaryotes, it occurs as the primary mechanism to process precursor RNA into mature, translatable mRNAs in some organisms, such as trypanosomes and nematodes.

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 The SL RNA provides an exon that is connected to the first exon of an mRNA by trans-splicing. The reaction involves the same interactions as nuclear cis splicing but generates a Y-shaped RNA instead of a lariat.