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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2010 Feb 20;20(2):149–155. doi: 10.1016/j.gde.2010.01.004

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Alu RNA exonization promotes proteome diversity. A) Shown is an example in which embedded Alu RNA is exonized via alternative splicing into an mRNA. B) Alu RNA indirect repeats embedded in an mRNA can become double stranded and undergo A-to-I editing, resulting in Alu exonization.