Splice site strength–dependent activity and genetic buffering by poly-G runs
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Xiao, Xinshu
Wang, Zefeng
Jang, Minyoung
Nutiu, Razvan
Wang, Eric T
Burge, Christopher B
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September 2009
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Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
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Nature Publishing Group
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Xiao, Xinshu et al. “Splice site strength–dependent activity and genetic buffering by poly-G runs.” Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 16 (2009): 1094-1100.
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Pre-mRNA splicing is regulated through the combinatorial activity of RNA motifs, including splice sites and splicing regulatory elements. Here we show that the activity of the G-run (polyguanine sequence) class of splicing enhancer elements is approx4-fold higher when adjacent to intermediate strength 5' splice sites (ss) than when adjacent to weak 5' ss, and approx1.3-fold higher relative to strong 5' ss. We observed this dependence on 5' ss strength in both splicing reporters and in global microarray and mRNA-Seq analyses of splicing changes following RNA interference against heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) H, which cross-linked to G-runs adjacent to many regulated exons. An exon's responsiveness to changes in hnRNP H levels therefore depends in a complex way on G-run abundance and 5' ss strength. This pattern of activity enables G-runs and hnRNP H to buffer the effects of 5' ss mutations, augmenting both the frequency of 5' ss polymorphism and the evolution of new splicing patterns. Certain other splicing factors may function similarly.
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Whitaker College of Health Sciences and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
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