PMID: 8600031Feb 15, 1996Paper

Functionally redundant interactions between U2 and U6 spliceosomal snRNAs

Genes & Development
D J Field, J D Friesen

Abstract

Base-pairing between U2 and U6 snRNAs to form intermolecular helix II has been demonstrated previously as a requirement for pre-mRNA splicing in mammalian cells. In contrast, deletion and substitution mutation experiments in yeast have indicated that helix II is not essential; instead, other regions of U2 and U6 have been proposed to pair, forming a helix called Ib. To investigate the importance of U2/U6 helices in yeast, we have systematically mutagenized the regions proposed to form helices II and Ib. Allele-specific suppression of certain U6 mutations by complementary substitutions in U2 show that helix II indeed form in yeast but that it is essential only in the presence of additional mutations that disrupt U2 stem I and the proposed helix Ib. Similarly, the proposed helix Ib is essential only when helix II is disrupted. These observations provide an explanation for apparently conflicting data in yeast and mammalian experimental systems, and identify synergistic or functionally redundant interactions between U2 and U6 snRNAs.

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