exitron

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 [EIs]) and define them as alternatively spliced internal regions of protein-coding exons