Control of alternative pre-mRNA splicing by distributed pentameric repeats

AUTOR(ES)

Hedjran, Farah

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences of the USA

RESUMO

Multiple copies of the hexamer TGCATG have been shown to regulate fibronectin pre-mRNA alternative splicing. GCATG repeats also are clustered near the regulated calcitonin-specific 3′ splice site in the rat calcitonin/CGRP gene. Specific mutagenesis of these repeats in calcitonin/CGRP pre-mRNA resulted in the loss of calcitonin-specific splicing, suggesting that the native repeats act to enhance alternative exon inclusion. Mutation of subsets of these elements implies that alternative splicing requires a minimum of two repeats, and that the combination of one intronic and one exonic repeat is necessary for optimal cell-specific splicing. However, multimerized intronic repeats inhibited calcitonin-specific splicing in both the wild-type context and in a transcript lacking endogenous repeats. These results suggest that both the number and distribution of repeats may be important features for the regulation of tissue-specific alternative splicing. Further, RNA containing a single repeat bound cell-specific protein complexes, but tissue-specific differences in protein binding were not detected by using multimerized repeats. Together, these data support a novel model for alternative splicing regulation that requires the cell-specific recognition of multiple, distributed sequence elements.

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