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- Title
Specific combinations of SR proteins associate with single pre-messenger RNAs in vivo and contribute different functions.
- Authors
Björk, Petra; Jin, ShaoBo; Zhao, Jian; Singh, Om Prakash; Persson, Jan-Olov; Hellman, Ulf; Wieslander, Lars
- Abstract
Serine/arginine-rich (SR) proteins are required for messenger RNA (mRNA) processing, export, surveillance, and translation. We show that in Chironomus tentans, nascent transcripts associate with multiple types of SR proteins in specific combinations. Alternative splicing factor (ASF)/SF2, SC35, 9G8, and hrp45/SRp55 are all present in Balbiani ring (BR) pre-messenger ribonucleoproteins (mRNPs) preferentially when introns appear in the pre-mRNA and when cotranscriptional splicing takes place. However, hrp45/SRp55 is distributed differently in the pre-mRNPs along the gene compared with ASF/SF2, SC35, and 9G8, suggesting functional differences. All four SR proteins are associated with the BR mRNPs during export to the cytoplasm. Interference with SC35 indicates that SC35 is important for the coordination of splicing, transcription, and 3′ end processing and also for nucleocytoplasmic export. ASF/SF2 is associated with polyribosomes, whereas SC35, 9G8, and hrp45/SRp55 cosediment with monoribosomes. Thus, individual endogenous pre-mRNPs/ mRNPs bind multiple types of SR proteins during transcription, and these SR proteins accompany the mRNA and play different roles during the gene expression pathway in vivo.
- Subjects
PROTEINS; SERINE; ARGININE; MESSENGER RNA; CHIRONOMUS; RNA splicing; GENETIC transcription; GENE expression
- Publication
Journal of Cell Biology, 2009, Vol 184, Issue 4, p555
- ISSN
0021-9525
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1083/jcb.200806156