A Cooperative Interaction Between U2AF65 and MBBP/SF1 Facilitates Branchpoint Region Recognition

Overview

Journal Genes Dev

Specialty Molecular Biology

Date 1998 Apr 29

PMID 9512519

Citations 146

Authors

J A Berglund

N Abovich

M Rosbash

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Abstract

During the early events of pre-mRNA splicing, intronic cis-acting sequences are recognized and interact through a network of RNA-RNA, RNA-protein, and protein-protein contacts. Recently, we identified a branchpoint sequence binding protein in yeast (BBP). The mammalian ortholog (mBBP/SF1) also binds specifically to branchpoint sequences and interacts with the well studied mammalian splicing factor U2AF65, which binds to the adjacent polypyrimidine (PY) tract. In this paper we demonstrate that the mBBP/SF1-U2AF65 interaction promotes cooperative binding to a branchpoint sequence-polypyrimidine tract-containing RNA, and we suggest that this cooperative RNA binding contributes to initial recognition of the branchpoint sequence (BPS) during pre-mRNA splicing. We also demonstrate the essential nature of the third RBD of U2AF65 for the interaction between the two proteins, both in the presence and absence of RNA.

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