Open AccessFresh as an Exitron: A Flower-Specific Splice Variant of AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR8 Helps Shape the Stamen
Author(s) -
Jennifer Lockhart
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.18.00208
Subject(s) - intron , biology , exon , stamen , rna splicing , gene , splice , genetics , translation (biology) , nucleus , coding region , messenger rna , alternative splicing , microbiology and biotechnology , rna , pollen , botany
Eukaryotic genes contain protein-coding exons interspersed with noncoding introns. While introns are usually spliced out of mRNA (often in conjunction with various exons), intron retention usually causes mRNA to remain in the nucleus instead of being exported to the cytoplasm for translation. This
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