mrna processing takes place at cytoplasmic lattices in eurkaryotic cells.
mrna processing takes place at cytoplasmic lattices in eurkaryotic cells.
where does mrna processing take place in eurkaryotic cells?
cytoplasmic lattices
post-transcriptional modifications may also occur during the processing of other transcripts which ultimately become transfer rna, ribosomal rna, or any of the other types of rna used by the cell.









































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the pre-mrna molecule undergoes three main modifications. these modifications are 5' capping, 3' polyadenylation, and rna splicing, which occur in the cell nucleus before the rna is translated.









































section::::mrna processing.:5' processing.









































section::::mrna processing.:5' processing.:capping.
post-transcriptional modification
a study by cindy l. wills and bruce j. dolnick from the department of experimental therapeutics at the roswell park memorial institute in buffalo, new york and from the cell and molecular biology program at university of wisconsin in madison, wisconsin was made to understand cellular processes involving primary transcripts. researchers wanted to understand whether 5-fluorouracil (fura), a drug known for use in cancer treatment, inhibits or shuts down dihydrofolate reductase (dhfr) pre-mrna processing and/or nuclear mrna stability in methotrexate-resistant kb cells. long-term exposure to fura had no effect on the level of dhfr pre-mrna containing certain introns, which are sections of pre-mrna that are usually cut out of the sequence as a part of processing. however, levels of total dhfr mrna decreased two-fold in cells exposed to 1.0 μm fura. there was no significant change in the half-life, which refers to the time it takes 50% of the mrna to decay, of total dhfr mrna or pre-mrna observed in cells exposed to fura. and nuclear/cytoplasmic rna labeling experiments demonstrated that the rate of nuclear dhfr rna changing to cytoplasmic dhfr mrna decreased in cells treated with fura. these results provide further evidence that fura may help in the processing of mrna precursors and/or affect the stability of nuclear dhfr mrna.
primary transcript