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Coupling of spliceosome complexity to intron diversity.


ABSTRACT: We determined that over 40 spliceosomal proteins are conserved between many fungal species and humans but were lost during the evolution of S. cerevisiae, an intron-poor yeast with unusually rigid splicing signals. We analyzed null mutations in a subset of these factors, most of which had not been investigated previously, in the intron-rich yeast Cryptococcus neoformans. We found they govern splicing efficiency of introns with divergent spacing between intron elements. Importantly, most of these factors also suppress usage of weak nearby cryptic/alternative splice sites. Among these, orthologs of GPATCH1 and the helicase DHX35 display correlated functional signatures and copurify with each other as well as components of catalytically active spliceosomes, identifying a conserved G patch/helicase pair that promotes splicing fidelity. We propose that a significant fraction of spliceosomal proteins in humans and most eukaryotes are involved in limiting splicing errors, potentially through kinetic proofreading mechanisms, thereby enabling greater intron diversity.

SUBMITTER: Sales-Lee J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8967684 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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We determined that over 40 spliceosomal proteins are conserved between many fungal species and humans but were lost during the evolution of S. cerevisiae, an intron-poor yeast with unusually rigid splicing signals. We analyzed null mutations in a subset of these factors, most of which had not been investigated previously, in the intron-rich yeast Cryptococcus neoformans. We found they govern splicing efficiency of introns with divergent spacing between intron elements. Importantly, most of these  ...[more]

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