The four 9-bp consensus sequences on the right side of oriC provide the initial binding sites for DnaA-ATP

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Alternative splicing is often associated with weak splice sites.

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Specific exonic and intronic sequences can enhance or suppress splice site selection.

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In general, SR proteins bind to exonic splicing enhancers and the hnRNP proteins bind to exonic silencers

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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.