Journal
RNA
Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages 75-86Publisher
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1261/rna.054049.115
Keywords
Sus1; gene expression; splicing; yeast; NMR; RNA; structure; thermal stability
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- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) of Spain [BFU2011-23418, BFU2014-57636-P, BFU-2012-30770]
- Generalitat Valenciana of Spain [PROMETEO/2013/061, ACOMP/2014/061, ACOMP/2015/096, ACOMP/2014/056]
- Universidad Catolica de Valencia
- Generalitat Valenciana of Spain (Santiago Grisolia fellowship)
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Sus1 is a conserved protein involved in chromatin remodeling and mRNA biogenesis. Unlike most yeast genes, the SUS1 pre-mRNA of Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains two introns and is alternatively spliced, retaining one or both introns in response to changes in environmental conditions. SUS1 splicing may allow the cell to control Sus1 expression, but the mechanisms that regulate this process remain unknown. Using in silico analyses together with NMR spectroscopy, gel electrophoresis, and UV thermal denaturation experiments, we show that the downstream intron (12) of SUS1 forms a weakly stable, 37-nucleotide stem loop structure containing the branch site near its apical loop and the 3' splice site after the stem terminus. A cellular assay revealed that two of four mutants containing altered 12 structures had significantly impaired SUS1 expression. Semiquantitative RT-PCR experiments indicated that all mutants accumulated unspliced SUS1 pre-mRNA and/or induced distorted levels of fully spliced mRNA relative to wild type. Concomitantly, Sus1 cellular functions in histone H2B deubiquitination and mRNA export were affected in 12 hairpin mutants that inhibited splicing. This work demonstrates that 12 structure is relevant for SUS1 expression, and that this effect is likely exerted through modulation of splicing.
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