Identification of a Small Molecule Inhibitor That Stalls Splicing at an Early Step of Spliceosome Activation

Overview

Journal Elife

Specialty Biology

Date 2017 Mar 17

PMID 28300534

Citations 30

Authors

Anzhalika Sidarovich

Cindy L Will

Maria M Anokhina

Javier Ceballos

Sonja Sievers

Dmitry E Agafonov

Timur Samatov

Penghui Bao

Berthold Kastner

Henning Urlaub

Herbert Waldmann

Reinhard Luhrmann

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Abstract

Small molecule inhibitors of pre-mRNA splicing are important tools for identifying new spliceosome assembly intermediates, allowing a finer dissection of spliceosome dynamics and function. Here, we identified a small molecule that inhibits human pre-mRNA splicing at an intermediate stage during conversion of pre-catalytic spliceosomal B complexes into activated B complexes. Characterization of the stalled complexes (designated B) revealed that U4/U6 snRNP proteins are released during activation before the U6 Lsm and B-specific proteins, and before recruitment and/or stable incorporation of Prp19/CDC5L complex and other B complex proteins. The U2/U6 RNA network in B complexes differs from that of the B complex, consistent with the idea that the catalytic RNA core forms stepwise during the B to B transition and is likely stabilized by the Prp19/CDC5L complex and related proteins. Taken together, our data provide new insights into the RNP rearrangements and extensive exchange of proteins that occurs during spliceosome activation.

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