title: Genetic studies of the PRP11 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
abstract: PRP11 is a gene that encodes an essential function for pre-messenger RNA (mRNA) processing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We have carried out a mutational study to locate essential and non-essential regions of the PRP11 protein. The existing temperature-sensitive (ts) mutation (prp11-1) was isolated from the chromosome of the original mutant and its position in the gene was determined. When the prp11-1 gene was transcribed from the GAL1 promoter, the overproduced protein was able to reverse the ts prp11-1 phenotype; this is compatible with the possibility that the defect in the prp11-1 gene product affects its binding to the spliceosome. Thirteen linker-insertion mutations were constructed. Only five (prp11-4, 11-6, 11-10, -13 and -14) resulted in a null phenotype. One of these became temperature-sensitive when the insertion was reduced in size from four (prp11-10) to two (prp11-15) amino acids. A sequence of ten amino acids of which also occurs in the human U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle (snRNP) A protein and the U2 snRNP B" protein, when deleted from PRP11, had no phenotype and thus appears to be nonessential for PRP11 function. However, a linker-insertion mutation (prp11-10) immediately adjacent to this region resulted in a null phenotype.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schappert
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Friesen
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D004271:DNA, Fungal; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D015966:Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016254:Mutagenesis, Insertional; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D010641:Phenotype; D012323:RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional / Q000235:genetics*; D012342:RNA, Small Nuclear / Q000235:genetics; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics*; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal; D005656:Fungal Proteins; C068835:PRP11 protein, S cerevisiae; D012342:RNA, Small Nuclear; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins