group_I_intron

Term ID

SO:0000587

Synonyms

• group I intron

Definition

Group I catalytic introns are large self-splicing ribozymes. They catalyze their own excision from mRNA, tRNA and rRNA precursors in a wide range of organisms. The core secondary structure consists of 9 paired regions (P1-P9). These fold to essentially two domains, the P4-P6 domain (formed from the stacking of P5, P4, P6 and P6a helices) and the P3-P9 domain (formed from the P8, P3, P7 and P9 helices). Group I catalytic introns often have long ORFs inserted in loop regions. http://www.sanger.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rfam/getacc?RF00028

References

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_I_intron

Ontology

Sequence Ontology