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SUBMITTER: Green CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6805012 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Green Cathleen M CM Li Zhong Z Smith Aaron D AD Novikova Olga O Bacot-Davis Valjean R VR Gao Fengshan F Hu Saiyang S Banavali Nilesh K NK Thiele Dennis J DJ Li Hongmin H Belfort Marlene M
PLoS biology 20191010 10
The spliceosome is a large ribonucleoprotein complex that removes introns from pre-mRNAs. At its functional core lies the essential pre-mRNA processing factor 8 (Prp8) protein. Across diverse eukaryotes, this protein cofactor of RNA catalysis harbors a self-splicing element called an intein. Inteins in Prp8 are extremely pervasive and are found at 7 different sites in various species. Here, we focus on the Prp8 intein from Cryptococcus neoformans (Cne), a human fungal pathogen. We solved the cry ...[more]