intron

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Reporter gene expression shows that a promoter within the intron is activated during ray 6 development and remains active in the adult.

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  1. noun A segment of a gene situated between exons that is removed before translation of messenger RNA and does not function in coding for protein synthesis.

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  • Reporter gene expression shows that a promoter within the intron is activated during ray 6 development and remains active in the adult. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • U1 recognizes this splice site by lining up against the target RNA and pairing a segment of its own RNA bases with the splice site's RNA bases following a set of rules: U pairs with A or G, and C pairs with G. U1's ability to recognize this splice site at the start of the intron is strongest when up to 11 bases are paired up. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • This retention event appears not to be solely dependent on intron features, because in the case of LY6G5B, when the intron is inserted in the artificial context of a luciferase expression plasmid, it is fully spliced but strongly stabilises the resulting luciferase transcript. —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • When the cDNA sequence was corrected in ORF prediction because of frame-shifting and remaining intron, the nucleotide position of SNP was modified based on addition or deletion of nucleotides. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • I find no more than ten clear cases of true movement of an intron boundary of a possibly constitutively spliced intron, and no clear cases of true —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
 

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  1. intr(agenic), occurring within a gene (intra- + genic) + -on1.
 

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