UACUAAC is the preferred branch site for mammalian mRNA splicing.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on April 01, 1989

Authors

Y A Zhuang1, A M Goldstein, A M Weiner

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510.

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