We thank Hao Zhang for technical assistance, Dr. Robin Reed for providing AdML plasmids. The work was supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (30670441, 30300070);Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-04-0245); Specialized Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (20040062003);Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Commission (043802811).
Pre-mRNA splicing is a fundamental process required for the expression of most metazoan genes. It is carried out by the spliceosome that catalyzes the removal of non-coding intron sequences to ligate exons into mature...