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NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue 12, Pages 1134-1140Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1339
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM67842, GM61987, R01 GM062516-07, GM62561, R01 GM067842, R01 GM061987, R01 GM067842-06, R01 GM062516] Funding Source: Medline
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The Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule (Dscam) gene has essential roles in neural wiring and pathogen recognition in Drosophila melanogaster. Dscam encodes 38,016 distinct isoforms via extensive alternative splicing. The 95 alternative exons in Dscam are organized into clusters that are spliced in a mutually exclusive manner. The exon 6 cluster contains 48 variable exons and uses a complex system of competing RNA structures to ensure that only one variable exon is included. Here we show that the heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein hrp36 acts specifically within, and throughout, the exon 6 cluster to prevent the inclusion of multiple exons. Moreover, hrp36 prevents serine/arginine-rich proteins from promoting the ectopic inclusion of multiple exon 6 variants. Thus, the fidelity of mutually exclusive splicing in the exon 6 cluster is governed by an intricate combination of alternative RNA structures and a globally acting splicing repressor.
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