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Schematic representation of the splicing reaction and essential splicing signals. Conserved sequence elements of metazoan pre-mRNAs are indicated. R and Y stand for purine and pyrimidine residues, respectively. N indicates any nucleotide. The adenosine residue used as a branch nucleotide is underlined.
