Table 3 Base-pairing probabilities of contact conformation (Figure 4) for the wildtype (wt) RPS17B intron and Libri et al.'s [8] intron mutants.

wt

0.40

efficient

3mUB1

0.33

slightly reduced

5mUB1

0.31

slightly reduced

8mUB1

0.34

efficient

3mDB1

0.01

inhibited

5mDB1

< 0.01

inhibited

3mUB1_3mDB1

0.01

inhibited

5mUB1_5mDB1

0.11

slightly reduced

6mUB1

0.05

inhibited

4mUB1

0.18

reduced