# The green side of splicing: algal spliceosome shows remarkable structural conservation

## TL;DR

Researchers discovered that the spliceosome in a green alga has a structure very similar to other organisms, showing surprising conservation.

## Contribution

The study presents the first Cryo-EM structure of the spliceosome from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

## Key findings

- The algal spliceosome structure is remarkably similar to those in other organisms.
- This finding suggests deep evolutionary conservation of the spliceosome across species.

## Abstract

Spliceosome structures have been investigated extensively in the past decade, but most of the studies have been restricted to a handful of model organisms. New research by Lu et al, looks outside this field-of-view, reporting on the structure of the spliceosome from a unicellular green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, showing its extraordinary structural conservation.

A new study solves the Cryo-EM structure of a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii spliceosome.