The determinants for Sm protein binding to Xenopus U1 and U5 snRNAs are complex and non-identical.
AUTOR(ES)
Jarmolowski, A
RESUMO
The Sm binding sites of different spliceosomal U small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs), the RNA structural elements required for interaction with common snRNP proteins, have been considered to be similar or identical. Here we show that this is not the case. Instead, structural and sequence features unique to U1 or U5 snRNAs that contribute to common protein binding are identified. The determinants of Sm protein binding in both RNAs are complex, consisting in U5 of minimally two and in U1 of minimally four separate structural elements. Even the most conserved features of the two RNAs, single-stranded regions whose generalized sequence is PuA(U)nGPu, are not functionally interchangeable in protein binding. At least one of the newly defined RNA elements functions in assembly with the common proteins, but is not required for their stable binding thereafter. U1, but not U5, snRNP requires a trimethyl guanosine cap structure for its transport to the nucleus. This is not a consequence of the differences in common snRNP binding to the two RNAs, but is due to structural features of U1 RNA that do not contribute to Sm protein binding.
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