Control of Gene Expression in Animal Cells: The Cascade Regulation Hypothesis Revisited

IIT: Intra-cellular information transfer; mRNA: messenger RNA; pre-mRNA: precursor to mRNA (used synonymously with the formerly used terms, messenger-like RNA (m1RNA), DNA-like RNA (D-RNA) and heterogeneous nuclear RNA (HnRNA); RNP: ribonucleoprotein complex; mRNP: RNP containing mRNA.