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A multi-factor trafficking site on the spliceosome remodeling enzyme BRR2 recruits C9ORF78 to regulate alternative splicing

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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28754-2

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  1. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [TRR186-A15, INST 130/1064-1 FUGG]
  2. Berlin University Alliance [501_BIS-CryoFac]
  3. Max Planck Society

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The intrinsically unstructured protein C9ORF78 interacts tightly with the spliceosome remodeling factor BRR2, and its knockout leads to changes in splice site usage and exon skipping, dependent on BRR2.
The intrinsically unstructured C9ORF78 protein was detected in spliceosomes but its role in splicing is presently unclear. We find that C9ORF78 tightly interacts with the spliceosome remodeling factor, BRR2, in vitro. Affinity purification/mass spectrometry and RNA UV-crosslinking analyses identify additional C9ORF78 interactors in spliceosomes. Cryogenic electron microscopy structures reveal how C9ORF78 and the spliceosomal B complex protein, FBP21, wrap around the C-terminal helicase cassette of BRR2 in a mutually exclusive manner. Knock-down of C9ORF78 leads to alternative NAGNAG 3 '-splice site usage and exon skipping, the latter dependent on BRR2. Inspection of spliceosome structures shows that C9ORF78 could contact several detected spliceosome interactors when bound to BRR2, including the suggested 3 '-splice site regulating helicase, PRPF22. Together, our data establish C9ORF78 as a late-stage splicing regulatory protein that takes advantage of a multi-factor trafficking site on BRR2, providing one explanation for suggested roles of BRR2 during splicing catalysis and alternative splicing. Bergfort et al. use biochemistry, cryoEM, structure-guided mutagenesis, transcriptomics and proteomics to reveal how the intrinsically unstructured C9ORF78 protein binds BRR2 and PRPF8, regulating cassette exons and alternative 3'-splice sites.

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