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Selection and Characterization of Pre-mRNA Splicing Enhancers: Identification of Novel SR Protein-Specific Enhancer Sequences

机译:前mRNA剪接增强子的选择和表征:新型SR蛋白特异性增强子序列的鉴定。

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Splicing enhancers are RNA sequences required for accurate splice site recognition and the control of alternative splicing. In this study, we used an in vitro selection procedure to identify and characterize novel RNA sequences capable of functioning as pre-mRNA splicing enhancers. Randomized 18-nucleotide RNA sequences were inserted downstream from a Drosophila doublesex pre-mRNA enhancer-dependent splicing substrate. Functional splicing enhancers were then selected by multiple rounds of in vitro splicing in nuclear extracts, reverse transcription, and selective PCR amplification of the spliced products. Characterization of the selected splicing enhancers revealed a highly heterogeneous population of sequences, but we identified six classes of recurring degenerate sequence motifs five to seven nucleotides in length including novel splicing enhancer sequence motifs. Analysis of selected splicing enhancer elements and other enhancers in S100 complementation assays led to the identification of individual enhancers capable of being activated by specific serine/arginine (SR)-rich splicing factors (SC35, 9G8, and SF2/ASF). In addition, a potent splicing enhancer sequence isolated in the selection specifically binds a 20-kDa SR protein. This enhancer sequence has a high level of sequence homology with a recently identified RNA-protein adduct that can be immunoprecipitated with an SRp20-specific antibody. We conclude that distinct classes of selected enhancers are activated by specific SR proteins, but there is considerable sequence degeneracy within each class. The results presented here, in conjunction with previous studies, reveal a remarkably broad spectrum of RNA sequences capable of binding specific SR proteins and/or functioning as SR-specific splicing enhancers.
机译:剪接增强子是精确剪接位点识别和替代剪接控制所需的RNA序列。在这项研究中,我们使用了体外选择程序来鉴定和表征能够充当前mRNA剪接增强子的新型RNA序列。将随机的18个核苷酸的RNA序列插入到 Drosophila doublesex pre-mRNA增强子依赖性剪接底物的下游。然后通过在核提取物中进行多轮体外剪接,逆转录和剪接产物的选择性PCR扩增来选择功能性剪接增强子。所选剪接增强子的表征揭示了高度异质的序列,但是我们鉴定了六类重复的简并序列基序,长度为5至7个核苷酸,包括新型剪接增强子序列基序。在S100互补分析中对所选剪接增强子元件和其他增强子的分析导致鉴定了能够被富含特定丝氨酸/精氨酸(SR)的剪接因子(SC35、9G8和SF2 / ASF)激活的单个增强子。另外,在选择中分离的有效剪接增强子序列特异性结合20-kDa SR蛋白。该增强子序列与最近鉴定的可以用SRp20特异性抗体免疫沉淀的RNA-蛋白质加合物具有高度的序列同源性。我们得出结论,特定增强子可以激活不同类别的所选增强子,但是每个类别中都有相当大的序列简并性。结合以前的研究,此处给出的结果揭示了能够结合特异性SR蛋白和/或用作SR特异性剪接增强子的RNA序列范围广。

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