Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30975767›Full record

ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2019

Mechanism of 5' splice site transfer for human spliceosome activation.

Clément Charenton, Max E Wilkinson, Kiyoshi Nagai

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 120 papers.

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120citing papers in PubMed
7.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

120 citing papers in PubMed, 170 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Clément Charenton *MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK. ccharent@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk mwilkin@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk kn@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-8959-7012
Max E Wilkinson *MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK. ccharent@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk mwilkin@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk kn@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-4738-9503
Kiyoshi NagaiMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK. ccharent@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk mwilkin@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk kn@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-1785-6510
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology · GB

Funding

European Research Council 693087Medical Research Council MC_U105184330
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The prespliceosome, comprising U1 and U2 small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) bound to the precursor messenger RNA 5' splice site (5'SS) and branch point sequence, associates with the U4/U6.U5 tri-snRNP to form the fully assembled precatalytic pre-B spliceosome. Here, we report cryo-electron microscopy structures of the human pre-B complex captured before U1 snRNP dissociation at 3.3-angstrom core resolution and the human tri-snRNP at 2.9-angstrom resolution. U1 snRNP inserts the 5'SS-U1 snRNA helix between the two RecA domains of the Prp28 DEAD-box helicase. Adenosine 5'-triphosphate-dependent closure of the Prp28 RecA domains releases the 5'SS to pair with the nearby U6 ACAGAGA-box sequence presented as a mobile loop. The structures suggest that formation of the 5'SS-ACAGAGA helix triggers remodeling of an intricate protein-RNA network to induce Brr2 helicase relocation to its loading sequence in U4 snRNA, enabling Brr2 to unwind the U4/U6 snRNA duplex to allow U6 snRNA to form the catalytic center of the spliceosome.

Indexed as

RNA Splice SitesRNA SplicingCryoelectron MicroscopyHumansProtein ConformationRibonucleoproteins, Small NuclearRibonucleoprotein, U1 Small NuclearRibonucleoprotein, U4-U6 Small NuclearRNA FoldingRNA, Small NuclearSpliceosomesRibonucleoproteins, Small NuclearRibonucleoprotein, U1 Small NuclearRibonucleoprotein, U4-U6 Small NuclearRNA, Small NuclearRNA Splice SitesSNRNP200 protein, humanU1 small nuclear RNAU4 small nuclear RNAU6 small nuclear RNA

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PMID30975767
PMCPMC6525098
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