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MOLECULAR CELL
Volume 8, Issue 6, Pages 1351-1361Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(01)00409-9
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA 13106] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM 42699] Funding Source: Medline
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SR proteins recognize exonic splicing enhancer (ESE) elements and promote exon use, whereas certain hnRNP proteins bind to exonic splicing silencer (ESS) elements and block exon recognition. We investigated how ESS3 in HIV-1 tat exon 3 blocks splicing promoted by one SR protein (SC35) but not another (SF2/ASF). hnRNP Al mediates silencing by binding initially to a required high-affinity site in ESS3, which then promotes further hnRNP Al association with the upstream region of the exon. Both SC35 and SF2/ASF recognize upstream ESE motifs, but only SF2/ASF prevents secondary hnRNP Al binding, presumably by blocking its cooperative propagation along the exon. The differential antagonism between a negative and two positive regulators exemplifies how inclusion of an alternative exon can be modulated.
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