REGULATION OF ALTERNATIVE PRE-MESSENGER-RNA SPLICING BY A NOVEL REPEATED HEXANUCLEOTIDE ELEMENT
REGULATION OF ALTERNATIVE PRE-MESSENGER-RNA SPLICING BY A NOVEL REPEATED HEXANUCLEOTIDE ELEMENT
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DOI:
10.1101/gad.8.13.1561
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发表时间:
1994-07-01
影响因子:
10.5
通讯作者:
HYNES, RO
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作者:
HUH, GS;HYNES, RO
The alternatively spliced exon EIIIB is regulated in a cell type-specific manner in the rat fibronectin gene. Splicing of EIIIB into fibronectin mRNA is dependent on sequences in the intron immediately downstream of EIIIB. We show that a short, highly repeated TGCATG motif in this intron is important for cell type-specific recognition of EIIIB as an exon. This motif enhances usage of the EIIIB 5' splice site; furthermore, this repeated TGCATG sequence can activate an alternatively spliced exon in the unrelated rat preprotachykinin pre-mRNA. Interestingly, this sequence can also be found within cis-acting elements identified previously in other alternatively spliced genes. This short repeated TGCATG motif is therefore a cell type-specific element that, in addition to controlling fibronectin alternative splicing, may participate in the regulation of other alternative RNA processing events.