Nucleic Acids Research, 1990, Vol. 18, No. 14 4089-4097
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
In vitro splicing of fibronectin pre-mRNAs
Center for Cancer Research Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
*To whom correspondence should be addressed
Received May 14, 1990. Accepted June 22, 1990.
We have investigated the alternative splicing of the EIIIB exon of the rat fibronectin gene. Mini-gene constructs containing this exon and portions of adjacent introns and exons, when transfected into HeLa cells, are transcribed and spliced, but omit the EIIIB exon. In vitro, HeLa nuclear extracts similarly splice out (skip) the EIIIB exon from similarly structured transcripts. Therefore, the HeLa splicing apparatus recognizes as atypical the EIIIB exon and its flanking intron sequences, both in vivo and in vitro. We also report that alterations in the ionic conditions of the in vitro splicing reaction can promote the initiation of EIIIB exon inclusion, as reflected by the formation of intermediate and product RNAs related to the removal of the intron upstream of EIIIB. Processing of this intron correlates with the formation of complexes resembling intermediates in spliceosome assembly. The branch sites involved in this alternative processing pathway are rather distant from the EIIIB 3' splice site, and lie within a region which is well conserved in the fibronectin genes of other species. Thus, the intron upstream of EIIIB shows singular structure and behavior which probably have a bearing on the regulated alternative splicing of this exon.
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