Copertino D W, Hallick R B
Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721.
Trends Biochem Sci. 1993 Dec;18(12):467-71. doi: 10.1016/0968-0004(93)90008-b.
Two new and important features of introns have emerged from analysis of the Euglena gracilis chloroplast genome. One is a new class of introns, designated group III, that may be the closest contemporaries to nuclear pre-mRNA introns. The second is introns that are interrupted by other introns termed twintrons.
通过对纤细裸藻叶绿体基因组的分析,发现了内含子的两个新的重要特征。一个是一类新的内含子,称为III组,它可能是与核前体mRNA内含子关系最密切的当代同类。第二个是被其他称为双内含子的内含子打断的内含子。