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NATURE GENETICS
Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 426-429Publisher
NATURE AMERICA INC
DOI: 10.1038/ng858
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- Telethon [GGP02453] Funding Source: Medline
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Disease-causing splicing mutations described in the literature primarily produce changes in splice sites and, to a lesser extent, variations in exon-regulatory sequences such as the enhancer elements(1-6). The gene ATM is mutated in individuals with ataxia-telangiectasia; we have indentified the aberrant inclusion of a cryptic exon of 65 by in one affected individual with a deletion of four nucleotides (GTAA) in intron 20. The deletion is located 12 by downstream and 53 by upstream from the 5' and 3' ends of the cryptic exon, respectively. Through analysis of the splicing defect using a hybrid minigene system, we identified a new intron-splicing processing element (ISPE) complementary to U1 snRNA, the RNA component of the U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (snRNP). This element mediates accurate intron processing and interacts specifically with U1 snRNP particles. The 4-nt deletion completely abolished this interaction, causing activation of the cryptic exon. On the basis of this analysis, we describe a new type of U1 snRNP binding site in an intron that is essential for accurate intron removal. Deletion of this sequence is directly involved in the splicing processing defect.
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