exitron

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English

Etymology

Blend of exon +‎ intron (approximately).

Noun

exitron (plural exitrons)

  1. (genetics) One of a set of alternatively spliced internal regions of protein-coding exons.
    • 2015 July 7, Dorothee Staiger, Gordon G. Simpson, “Enter exitrons”, in Genome Biology, volume 16, →DOI:
      Therefore, in what ways might the processing and regulation of exitron splicing differ from that of conventional introns?
    • 2015 May 1, Marquez Y, Höpfler M, Ayatollahi Z, Barta A, Kalyna M, “Unmasking alternative splicing inside protein-coding exons defines exitrons and their role in proteome plasticity”, in Genome Research, volume 25, number 7, →DOI, pages 995–1007:
      On the basis of their exonic and intronic nature, here we name them exitrons (exonic introns ) and define them as alternatively spliced internal regions of protein-coding exons