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Retroviral Splicing Suppressor Sequesters a 3' Splice Site in a 50S Aberrant Splicing Complex

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Journal Mol Cell Biol
Specialty Cell Biology
Date 2005 May 19
PMID 15899846
Citations 17
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Retroviral replication requires both spliced and unspliced mRNAs. Splicing suppression of avian retroviral RNA depends in part upon a cis-acting element within the gag gene called the negative regulator of splicing (NRS). The NRS, linked to a downstream intron and exon (NRS-Ad3'), was not capable of splicing in vitro. However, a double-point mutation in the NRS pseudo-5' splice site sequence converted it into a functional 5' splice site. The wild-type (WT) NRS-Ad3' transcript assembled an approximately 50S spliceosome-like complex in vitro; its sedimentation rate was similar to that of a functional spliceosome formed on the mutant NRS-Ad3' RNA. The five major spliceosomal snRNPs were observed in both complexes by affinity selection. In addition, U11 snRNP was present only in the WT NRS-Ad3' complex. Addition of heparin to these complexes destabilized the WT NRS-Ad3' complex; it was incapable of forming a B complex on a native gel. Furthermore, the U5 snRNP protein, hPrp8, did not cross-link to the NRS pseudo-5' splice site, suggesting that the tri-snRNP complex was not properly associated with it. We propose that this aberrant, stalled spliceosome, containing U1, U2, and U11 snRNPs and a loosely associated tri-snRNP, sequesters the 3' splice site and prevents its interaction with the authentic 5' splice site upstream of the NRS.

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