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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE STRUCTURE AND EXPRESSION
卷 1576, 期 3, 页码 287-297出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(02)00368-8
关键词
RNA processing; splicing; spliceosome; tetratricopeptide repeat
The Drosophila crooked neck (crn) gene is essential for embryogenesis and has been implicated in cell cycle progression and in pre-mRNA splicing although a direct role in either process has not been established. Here we report isolation of the human crooked neck homolog, HCRN, and provide evidence for its function in splicing. HCRN encodes an unusual protein composed largely of tetratricopeptide repeat (TPR) elements. The crooked neck protein co-localizes with the SR and Sm protein splicing factors in discrete subnuclear domains implicated in snRNP biogenesis. In vitro assembly experiments show that an 83 kDa hcrn isoform is stably recruited to splicing complexes coincident with the addition of the U4/U6.U5 tri-snRNP particle. Crooked neck activity appears essential as extracts depleted of hcrn fail to splice pre-mRNA. These and related data support the view that crooked neck is a phylogenetically conserved pre-mRNA splicing factor. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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