Words similar to branch-point
Example sentences for: branch-point
How can you use “branch-point” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
2B,2C) and from the branch-point to each of the distal tips.
A deletion mutant of the branch-point A (ΔA54), along with the other three substitution mutants A54G, A54C and A54U were tested.
In aI5γ it is the branch-point A and the following 3' nucleotide which is a U, that are both bulged out.
Support for the observations in this report comes from work by Chu et al ., 2001 [ 22 ] on the aI5γ intron, in which they propose that a 4 bp stem 3' of the branch-point is one of the determinants for branch-point activation.
Although it is specifically the N6 amino group of the branch-point A that is recognized, many lines of evidence suggest that the actual base at the branch site is not required to be an A. Naturally occurring introns have U (11 times), followed by G (5 occurrences) and C (1 occurrence) (Comparative RNA Web Site database: http://www.rna.icmb.utexas.edu/).
Loading...