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CELL REPORTS
卷 5, 期 5, 页码 1187-1195出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.11.012
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- NIH-National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [R01NS069601, R21NS067448, R01NS078375, R01NS062869, F31NS079002]
- US Department of Defense [W81XWH-11-1-0689]
- Families of SMA A. Lewis Young Investigator Award
- SMA Foundation
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by a deficiency in the survival motor neuron (SMN) protein. SMN mediates the assembly of spliceosomal small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) and possibly other RNPs. Here, we investigated SMN requirement for the biogenesis and function of U7-an snRNP specialized in the 3'-end formation of replication-dependent histone mRNAs that normally are not polyadenylated. We show that SMN deficiency impairs U7 snRNP assembly and decreases U7 levels in mammalian cells. The SMN-dependent U7 reduction affects endonucleolytic cleavage of histone mRNAs leading to abnormal accumulation of 3'-extended and polyadenylated transcripts followed by downstream changes in histone gene expression. Importantly, SMN deficiency induces defects of histone mRNA 3'-end formation in both SMA mice and human patients. These findings demonstrate that SMN is essential for U7 biogenesis and histone mRNA processing in vivo and identify an additional RNA pathway disrupted in SMA.
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