ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Visualizing trans-splicing molecular machines across scales
Trans-splicing is an essential mRNA processing step for a significant portion of living organisms. In trans-splicing, exons from two pre-mRNA precursors merge into a single mRNA, while cis-splicing rearranges exons within the mRNA. Despite recent technical advancements in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) that movie-like resolved different stages of cis-splicing, the trans-splicing mechanism is still a black box: input and output are defined, but the single steps of how the trans-spliceosome assembles and remodels to initiate the splicing cycle lie in the dark. This limitation is partially due to the absence of molecular structures resolving trans-splicing complexes. In TRANSPLIC, I will…
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