. "\"Interacting selectively and non-covalently with pre-messenger RNA (pre-mRNA), an intermediate molecule between DNA and protein that may contain introns and, at least in part, encodes one or more proteins. Introns are removed from pre-mRNA to form a mRNA molecule.\" [GOC:bf, GOC:kmv, PMID:21901112, SO:0000120]" . . "pre-mRNA binding" . . "protein-coding primary transcript binding" .