Trans-splicing

Trans-splicing is a special form of RNA processing in eukaryotes where exons from two different primary RNA transcripts are joined end to end and ligated.

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In contrast "normal" (cis-)splicing processes a single molecule. That is, trans-splicing results in a RNA transcript that came from multiple RNA polymerases on the genome.

References

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