Journal
FEBS JOURNAL
Volume 273, Issue 3, Pages 577-587Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.05091.x
Keywords
protein phosphorylation; RNA splicing; SF1; kinase KIS; U2AF homology motif
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM070503-02, R01 GM070503, GM070503-01] Funding Source: Medline
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Protein phosphorylation ensures the accurate and controlled expression of the genome, for instance by regulating the activities of pre-mRNA splicing factors. Here we report that splicing factor 1 (SF1), which is involved in an early step of intronic sequence recognition, is highly phosphorylated ill mammalian cells on two serines within an SPSP motif at the junction between its U2AF(65) and RNA binding domains. We show that SF1 interacts in vitro with the protein kinase KIS, which possesses a 'U2AF homology motif (UHM) domain. The UHM domain of KIS is required for KIS and SF1 to interact, and for KIS to efficiently phosphorylate SF1 on the SPSP motif. Importantly, SPSP phosphorylation by KIS increases binding of SF1 to U2AF 65, and enhances formation of the ternary SF1-U2AF(65)-RNA complex. These results further suggest that this phosphorylation event has an important role for the function of SF1, and possibly for the structural rearrangements associated with spliceosome assembly and function.
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