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A) Sequence of the region around the ISS-N1 in the intron 7 of
SMN2 (
Hua et al., 2008;
Singh et al., 2006). The ISS-N1 is boxed in red, with the two AG dinucleotides constituting the core of the hnRNP A1 binding sites in italic. Exonic sequences are in upper case, whereas intronic sequences are in lower case. (
B) ISS-N1 oligonucleotides wild-type and variants (c14g, u25g and 14g25g) used in NMR studies. Residue numbering such as used in this manuscript corresponds to the residue number from the 5´ splice-site and is present above the sequences. The 5´ GGA sequence that allows high in vitro transcription efficiency is in gray. The two AG dinucleotides constituting the core of the hnRNP A1 binding sites are in bold. They are separated by a spacer of 9 nucleotides.