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Our word lariat comes from this Mexican word with the definite article prefixed and the final vowel dropped.
A cowboy swings his lariat before a rearing white horse and, for a second, you're caught by the power and careful balance of the tableau.
The second transesterification results in exon ligation with the release of lariat RNA complexed with the intron-encoded protein.
Lariat is compounded from the Spanish la `the' + reata `lasso.
In the first step of splicing, there is a nucleophilic attack by the branch-point residue on the nucleotide at position 1 of the intron, resulting in a lariat structure with the intron remaining attached to the 3' exon.