Regulation of tissue-specific splicing of the calcitonin/calcitonin gene-related peptide gene by RNA-binding proteins
| Autor: | J R, Roesser, K, Liittschwager, S E, Leff |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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Calcitonin
Neurons Base Sequence Transcription Genetic Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide Molecular Sequence Data Restriction Mapping Teratoma Thyroid Gland Brain RNA-Binding Proteins Globins Alternative Splicing Mice Gene Expression Regulation Tumor Cells Cultured Animals Humans RNA Messenger HeLa Cells |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of biological chemistry. 268(11) |
| ISSN: | 0021-9258 |
| Popis: | Transcripts of the rat calcitonin/calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) gene are alternatively spliced in a tissue-specific manner resulting in the production of calcitonin mRNA and peptide in thyroid C cells and CGRP mRNA and peptide in neurons. Transfection studies using calcitonin and chimaeric human beta-globin/calcitonin exon minigene constructs showed that the splice acceptor and exon specific to calcitonin mRNA are spliced much less efficiently in CGRP-producing cells (F9 teratocarcinomas) than in cells that preferentially make calcitonin (HeLa cells). In vitro splicing of chimaeric human beta-globin/calcitonin transcripts in HeLa nuclear extracts were inhibited by the addition of nuclear extract from CGRP-favoring cells or tissues such as rat brain. This inhibition was specific as splicing of human beta-globin first intron transcripts was not affected by comparable amounts of rat brain extract. Fractionation of rat brain nuclear extracts allowed the partial purification of two brain-specific polypeptides of apparent molecular mass of 43 and 41 kDa which preferentially bind RNA containing the calcitonin-specific splice acceptor. Since these polypeptides cofractionate with the calcitonin mRNA-specific splicing inhibition activity, we suggest that they may mediate the inhibition of splicing observed in vitro and underlie, in part, the inefficient calcitonin mRNA production observed in CGRP-favoring cells in vivo. |
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