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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 17, Pages 7484-7493Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.17.7484-7493.2005
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM063874, R01 GM063874] Funding Source: Medline
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We have previously demonstrated that p68 RNA helicase, as an essential human splicing factor, acts at the Ut snRNA and 5' splice site (5'ss) duplex in the pre-mRNA splicing process. To further analyze the function of p68 in the spliceosome, we generated two p68 mutants (motif V, RGLD to LGLD, and motif VI, HRIGR to HLIGR). ATPase and RNA unwinding assays demonstrated that the mutations abolished the RNA-dependent ATPase activity and RNA unwinding activity. The function of p68 in the spliceosome was abolished by the mutations, and the mutations also inhibited the dissociation of U1 from the 5'ss, while the mutants still interacted with the U1-5'ss duplex. Interestingly, the nonactive p68 mutants did not prevent the transition from prespliceosome to the spliceosome. The data suggested that p68 RNA helicase might actively unwind the U1-5'ss duplex. The protein might also play a role in the U4.U6/U5 addition, which did not require the ATPase and RNA unwinding activities of p68. In addition, we present evidence here to demonstrate the functional role of p68 RNA helicase in the pre-mRNA splicing process in vivo. Our experiments also showed that p68 interacted with unspliced but not spliced mRNA in vivo.
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