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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-12-16
pubmed:abstractText
Mouse polyomavirus has been used as a model system to study nucleocytoplasmic transport of mRNA. Three late mRNAs encoding the viral capsid proteins are generated by alternative splicing from common pre-mRNA molecules. mRNAs encoding the virion protein VP2 (mVP2) harbor an unused 5' splice site, and more than half of them remain fully unspliced yet are able to enter the cytoplasm for translation. Examination of the intracellular distribution of late viral mRNAs revealed, however, that mVP2 molecules are exported less efficiently than are mVP1 and mVP3, in which the 5' splice site has been removed by splicing. Point mutations and deletion analyses demonstrated that the efficiency of mVP2 export is inversely correlated with the strength of the 5' splice site and that unused 3' splice sites present in the mRNA have little or no effect on export. These results suggest that the unused 5' splice site is a key player in mVP2 export. Interestingly, mRNAs carrying large deletions but retaining the 5' splice site exhibited a wild-type mVP2 export phenotype, suggesting that there are no other constitutive cis-acting sequences involved in mVP2 export. RNA stability measurements confirmed that the subcellular distribution differences between these mRNAs were not due to differential half-lives between the two cellular compartments. We therefore conclude that the nuclear export of mVP2 is strongly influenced by a suboptimal 5' splice site. Furthermore, results comparing spliced and unspliced forms of mVP2 molecules indicated that the process of splicing does not enhance nuclear export. Since mVP2 and some of its mutant forms can accumulate in the cytoplasm in the absence of splicing, we propose that splicing is not a prerequisite for mRNA export in the polyomavirus system; rather, removal of splicing machinery from mRNAs may be required. The possibility that export of other viral mRNAs can be influenced by suboptimal splicing signals is also discussed.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0270-7306
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
6046-54
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
A suboptimal 5' splice site is a cis-acting determinant of nuclear export of polyomavirus late mRNAs.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Microbiology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington 06030, USA. yhuang@panda.uchc.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.