Donor site competition is involved in the regulation of alternative splicing of the rat beta-tropomyosin pre-mRNA

Chen, C. D., Helfman, D. M. (February 1999) Donor site competition is involved in the regulation of alternative splicing of the rat beta-tropomyosin pre-mRNA. Rna, 5 (2). pp. 290-301. ISSN 1355-8382 (Print)

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Abstract

The rat beta-tropomyosin (beta-TM) gene encodes both skeletal muscle beta-TM mRNA and nonmuscle TM-1 mRNA via alternative RNA splicing. This gene contains eleven exons: exons 1-5, 8, and 9 are common to both mRNAs; exons 6 and 11 are used in fibroblasts as well as in smooth muscle, whereas exons 7 and 10 are used in skeletal muscle. Previously we demonstrated that utilization of the 3' splice site of exon 7 is blocked in nonmuscle cells. In this study, we use both in vitro and in vivo methods to investigate the regulation of the 5' splice site of exon 7 in nonmuscle cells. The 5' splice site of exon 7 is used efficiently in the absence of flanking sequences, but its utilization is suppressed almost completely when the upstream exon 6 and intron 6 are present. The suppression of the 5' splice site of exon 7 does not result from the sequences at the 3' end of intron 6 that block the use of the 3' splice site of exon 7. However, mutating two conserved nucleotides GU at the 5' splice site of exon 6 results in the efficient use of the 5' splice site of exon 7. In addition, a mutation that changes the 5' splice site of exon 7 to the consensus U1 snRNA binding site strongly stimulates the splicing of exon 7 to the downstream common exon 8. Collectively, these studies demonstrate that 5' splice site competition is responsible, in part, for the suppression of exon 7 usage in nonmuscle cells.

Item Type: Paper
Uncontrolled Keywords: Alternative Splicing/ genetics Animals Base Sequence Drosophila Proteins Exons/genetics Gene Expression Regulation/genetics Introns/genetics Molecular Sequence Data Nucleic Acid Conformation RNA Precursors/ genetics RNA Splicing/genetics Rats Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. Tropomyosin/ genetics
Subjects: organism description > animal > insect > Drosophila
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > Alternative Splicing
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > exons
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > genes, structure and function > gene expression
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > RNA splicing
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Communities: CSHL labs > Helfman lab
Depositing User: Kathleen Darby
Date: February 1999
Date Deposited: 28 Apr 2014 17:16
Last Modified: 30 Apr 2014 17:57
PMCID: PMC1369760
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/29794

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