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small nuclear ribonucleoprotein

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small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (plural small nuclear ribonucleoproteins)

  1. snRNPs (or small nuclear ribonucleoproteins) pronounced "snurps", are RNA-protein complexes that combine with unmodified pre-mRNA and various other proteins to form a spliceosome.