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ArticleNature communications2025

LUC7 proteins define two major classes of 5' splice sites in animals and plants.

Connor J Kenny, Michael P McGurk, Sandra Schüler, Aidan Cordero, Sascha Laubinger, Christopher B Burge

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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  4. Depleting prion protein using splice-switching small molecules.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  5. Spirocyclic β-lactone secondary metabolites modulate spliceosome function.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  12. Conserved role for spliceosomal component PRPF40A in microexon splicing.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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6 authors.

Connor J KennyDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Michael P McGurkDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Sandra SchülerInstitute of Biology, Department of Genetics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-6418-6820
Aidan CorderoDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Sascha LaubingerInstitute of Biology, Department of Genetics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6682-0728
Christopher B BurgeDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. cburge@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9047-5648

Funding

Identification and Function of Sequence-specific Splicing RegulatorsR01GM085319 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BURGE, CHRISTOPHER B · 2008 to 2025
$5.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM085319U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) GM085319
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mutation or deletion of the U1 snRNP-associated factor LUC7L2 is associated with myeloid neoplasms, and knockout of LUC7L2 alters cellular metabolism. Here, we show that members of the LUC7 protein family differentially regulate two major classes of 5' splice sites (5'SS) and broadly regulate mRNA splicing in both human cell lines and leukemias with LUC7L2 copy number variation. We describe distinctive 5'SS features of exons impacted by the three human LUC7 paralogs: LUC7L2 and LUC7L enhance splicing of "right-handed" 5'SS with stronger consensus matching on the intron side of the near invariant /GU, while LUC7L3 enhances splicing of "left-handed" 5'SS with stronger consensus matching upstream of the /GU. We validated our model of sequence-specific 5'SS regulation both by mutating splice sites and swapping domains between human LUC7 proteins. Evolutionary analysis indicates that the LUC7L2/LUC7L3 subfamilies evolved before the split between animals and plants. Analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana mutants confirmed that plant LUC7 orthologs possess similar specificity to their human counterparts, indicating that 5'SS regulation by LUC7 proteins is highly conserved.

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ArabidopsisRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA Splice SitesAnimalsArabidopsis ProteinsExonsHumansIntronsRNA SplicingArabidopsis ProteinsRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA Splice Sites

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PMCPMC11842720

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