Term Name: spliceosomal conformational changes to generate catalytic conformation
Synonyms: 3'-splice site cleavage, exon ligation
Definition: Structural rearrangements of the spliceosome complex, containing RNA to be spliced, to generate a catalytic conformation.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0000393]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
is part of: mRNA splicing, via spliceosome
has parts: generation of catalytic spliceosome for first transesterification step generation of catalytic spliceosome for second transesterification step spliceosome conformational change to release U4 (or U4atac) and U1 (or U11)
is a type of: protein-RNA complex assembly