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Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Simplified diagram of the survival of motor neuron (SMN) complex and the Sm core. The individual members of the SMN complex (SMN, Gemin2-8 and unrip) as well as the Sm proteins are depicted according to their interaction pattern. See text for details.