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Nucleic Acids Research 2005 33(13):4007-4015; doi:10.1093/nar/gki710
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Published online 19 July 2005

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Functional studies on the ATM intronic splicing processing element

Marzena A. Lewandowska, Cristiana Stuani, Alireza Parvizpur, Francisco E. Baralle and Franco Pagani*

International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Padriciano 99, 34012 Trieste, Italy

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +39 040 3757312; Fax: +39 040 226555; Email: pagani{at}icgeb.org

Received May 26, 2005. Revised June 20, 2005. Accepted June 29, 2005.

In disease-associated genes, the understanding of the functional significance of deep intronic nucleotide variants may represent a difficult challenge. We have previously reported a new disease-causing mechanism that involves an intronic splicing processing element (ISPE) in ATM, composed of adjacent consensus 5' and 3' splice sites. A GTAA deletion within ISPE maintains potential adjacent splice sites, disrupts a non-canonical U1 snRNP interaction and activates an aberrant exon. In this paper, we demonstrate that binding of U1 snRNA through complementarity within a ~40 nt window downstream of the ISPE prevents aberrant splicing. By selective mutagenesis at the adjacent consensus ISPE splice sites, we show that this effect is not due to a resplicing process occurring at the ISPE. Functional comparison of the ATM mouse counterpart and evaluation of the pre-mRNA splicing intermediates derived from affected cell lines and hybrid minigene assays indicate that U1 snRNP binding at the ISPE interferes with the cryptic acceptor site. Activation of this site results in a stringent 5'–3' order of intron sequence removal around the cryptic exon. Artificial U1 snRNA loading by complementarity to heterologous exonic sequences represents a potential therapeutic method to prevent the usage of an aberrant CFTR cryptic exon. Our results suggest that ISPE-like intronic elements binding U1 snRNPs may regulate correct intron processing.


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