COMPLEMENTATION BY SR PROTEINS OF PRE-MESSENGER-RNA SPLICING REACTIONS DEPLETED OF U1 SNRNP

被引:150
作者
CRISPINO, JD
BLENCOWE, BJ
SHARP, PA
机构
[1] MIT,CTR CANC RES,CAMBRIDGE,MA 02139
[2] MIT,DEPT BIOL,CAMBRIDGE,MA 02139
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D O I
10.1126/science.8091213
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Individual small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) U1, U2, and U4/U6 were removed from nuclear extracts of HeLa cells by antisense affinity depletion. Addition of a highly purified preparation of SR proteins fully restored splicing activity in reactions depleted of U1 snRNP but did not reconstitute splicing in reactions depleted of the other snRNPs. Affinity selection experiments revealed that spliceosomes lacking U1 snRNA formed in the U1 snRNP-depleted reactions reconstituted with SR proteins. Thus, high concentrations of SR proteins facilitate the assembly of precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) into a spliceosome in the absence of interactions with U1 snRNP.
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页码:1866 / 1869
页数:4
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