期刊
GENES & DEVELOPMENT
卷 20, 期 15, 页码 2055-2066出版社
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1434706
关键词
splicing; transcription; ribozyme; TFIIS; Paf1; Mud2
资金
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM007122, GM23549, R01 GM023549, T32 GM007122] Funding Source: Medline
Spliceosome assembly in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae was recently shown to occur at the site of transcription. However, evidence for cotranscriptional splicing as well as for coupling between transcription and splicing is still lacking. Using modifications of a previously published chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay, we show that cotranscriptional splicing occurs similar to 1 kb after transcription of the 3 ' splice site (3 ' SS). This pathway furthermore protects most intron-containing nascent transcripts from the effects of cleavage by an intronic hammerhead ribozyme. This suggests that a high percentage of introns are recognized cotranscriptionally. This observation led us to screen a small deletion library for strains that sensitize a splicing reporter to ribozyme cleavage. Characterization of the Delta mud2 strain indicates that the early splicing factor Mud2p functions with U1 snRNP to form a cross-intron bridging complex on nascent pre-mRNA. The complex helps protect the transcript from ribozyme-mediated destruction and suggests an intron-definition event early in the spliceosome assembly process. The transcription elongation mutant strains Delta dst1 and Delta paf1 show different cotranscriptional splicing phenotypes, suggesting that different transcription pathways differentially impact the efficiency of nascent intron definition.
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