branch_site (RELEASE_2.5.1) |
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| SO Accession: | SO:0000611 (SOWiki) |
| Definition: | A pyrimidine rich sequence near the 3' end of an intron to which the 5'end becomes covalently bound during nuclear splicing. The resulting structure resembles a lariat. |
| Synonyms: | branch point, branch site, branch_point |
| DB Xrefs: | SO: ke |
| Parent: | spliceosomal_intron_region (SO:0000841) |
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