title: HRP-2, the Caenorhabditis elegans homolog of mammalian heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins Q and R, is an alternative splicing factor that binds to UCUAUC splicing regulatory elements.
abstract: Alternative splicing is regulated by cis sequences in the pre-mRNA that serve as binding sites for trans-acting alternative splicing factors. In a previous study, we used bioinformatics and molecular biology to identify and confirm that the intronic hexamer sequence UCUAUC is a nematode alternative splicing regulatory element. In this study, we used RNA affinity chromatography to identify trans factors that bind to this sequence. HRP-2, the Caenorhabditis elegans homolog of human heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins Q and R, binds to UCUAUC in the context of unc-52 intronic regulatory sequences as well as to RNAs containing tandem repeats of this sequence. The three Us in the hexamer are the most important determinants of this binding specificity. We demonstrate, using RNA interference, that HRP-2 regulates the alternative splicing of two genes, unc-52 and lin-10, both of which have cassette exons flanked by an intronic UCUAUC motif. We propose that HRP-2 is a protein responsible for regulating alternative splicing through binding interactions with the UCUAUC sequence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology and Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA.
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Kabat
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Barberan-Soler
authors.forename: Alan M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Zahler
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans; D034481:Heterogeneous-Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein Group A-B / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D034441:Heterogeneous-Nuclear Ribonucleoproteins / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008957:Models, Genetic; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012313:RNA / Q000737:chemistry; D034622:RNA Interference; D012326:RNA Splicing; D050436:Regulatory Elements, Transcriptional; D012685:Sepharose / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: C439930:HNRNPR protein, human; C491442:HRP-2 protein, C elegans; D034481:Heterogeneous-Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein Group A-B; D034441:Heterogeneous-Nuclear Ribonucleoproteins; C425312:SYNCRIP protein, human; D012313:RNA; D012685:Sepharose
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