“…Ideally, the location of the splicing site should have only minimal effects on protein structure or function. We therefore selected the BC loop because no distinct functional role was known so far, and only a small  turn in contrast to the full  sheet, as in bacteriorhodopsin, has been observed (18,19,30,31). Other regions, such as the EF loop, are known to affect color and protein stability (22,32), none of which has been reported for the BC loop.…”