Exonic splicing silencer
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An exonic splicing silencer (ESS) is a small region of an exon
that inhibits or silences splicing of the pre-mRNA.
Exon
An exon is a nucleic acid sequence that is represented in the mature form of an RNA molecule either after portions of a precursor RNA have been removed by cis-splicing or when two or more precursor RNA molecules have been ligated by trans-splicing. The mature RNA molecule can be a messenger RNA...
that inhibits or silences splicing of the pre-mRNA.