PMID: 9557709Apr 29, 1998Paper

A tandem array of minimal U1 small nuclear RNA genes is sufficient to generate a new adenovirus type 12-inducible chromosome fragile site

Journal of Virology
Z LiA M Weiner

Abstract

Infection of human cells with adenovirus serotype 12 (Ad12) induces metaphase fragility of four, and apparently only four, chromosomal loci. Surprisingly, each of these four loci corresponds to a cluster of genes encoding a small abundant structural RNA: the RNU1 and RNU2 loci contain tandemly repeated genes encoding U1 and U2 small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs), respectively; the PSU1 locus is a cluster of degenerate U1 genes; and the RN5S locus contains the tandemly repeated genes encoding 5S rRNA. These observations suggested that high local levels of transcription, in combination with Ad12 early functions, can interfere with metaphase chromatin packing. In support of this hypothesis, we and others found that an artificial tandem array of transcriptionally active, but not inactive, U2 snRNA genes would generate a novel Ad12-inducible fragile site. Although U1 and U2 snRNA are both transcribed by RNA polymerase II and share similar enhancer, promoter, and terminator signals, the human U1 promoter is clearly more complex than that of U2. In addition, the natural U1 tandem repeat unit exceeds 45 kb, whereas the U2 tandem repeat unit is only 6.1 kb. We therefore asked whether an artificial array of minimal U1 genes would also generate a...Continue Reading

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