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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 38, 期 4, 页码 1353-1366出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp1086
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- Institut National de la Santeet de la Recherche Medicale
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Universities of Strasbourg and Nancy
- Agence Nationale pour la Recherche [ANR-05-BLAN-0261-01]
- European Commission
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-05-BLAN-0261] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
Alternative splicing is regulated in part by variations in the relative concentrations of a variety of factors, including serine/arginine-rich (SR) proteins. The SR protein SC35 self-regulates its expression by stimulating unproductive splicing events in the 3' untranslated region of its own pre-mRNA. Using various minigene constructs containing the terminal retained intron and flanking exons, we identified in the highly conserved last exon a number of exonic splicing enhancer elements responding specifically to SC35, and showed an inverse correlation between affinity of SC35 and enhancer strength. The enhancer region, which is included in a long stem loop, also contains repressor elements, and is recognized by other RNA-binding proteins, notably hnRNP H protein and TAR DNA binding protein (TDP-43). Finally, in vitro and in cellulo experiments indicated that hnRNP H and TDP-43 antagonize the binding of SC35 to the terminal exon and specifically repress the use of SC35 terminal 3' splice site. Our study provides new information about the molecular mechanisms of SC35-mediated splicing activation. It also highlights the existence of a complex network of self- and cross-regulatory mechanisms between splicing regulators, which controls their homeostasis and offers many ways of modulating their concentration in response to the cellular environment.
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