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The Human U5-200kD DEXH-Box Protein Unwinds U4/U6 RNA Duplices in vitro
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Journal Article
The Human U5-200kD DEXH-Box Protein Unwinds U4/U6 RNA Duplices in vitro
1998
Overview
Splicing of nuclear precursors of mRNA (pre-mRNA) involves dynamic interactions between the RNA constituents of the spliceosome. The rearrangement of RNA-RNA interactions, such as the unwinding of the U4/U6 duplex, is believed to be driven by ATP-dependent RNA helicases. We recently have shown that spliceosomal U5 small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) from HeLa cells contain two proteins, U5-200kD and U5-100kD, which share homology with the DEAD/DEXH-box families of RNA helicases. Here we demonstrate that purified U5 snRNPs exhibit ATP-dependent unwinding of U4/U6 RNA duplices in vitro. To identify the protein responsible for this activity, U5 snRNPs were depleted of a subset of proteins under high salt concentrations and assayed for RNA unwinding. The activity was retained in U5 snRNPs that contain the U5-200kD protein but lack U5-100kD, suggesting that the U5-200kD protein could mediate U4/U6 duplex unwinding. Finally, U5-200kD was purified to homogeneity by glycerol gradient centrifugation of U5 snRNP proteins in the presence of sodium thiocyanate, followed by ion exchange chromatography. The RNA unwinding activity was found to reside exclusively with the U5-200kD DEXH-box protein. Our data raise the interesting possibility that this RNA helicase catalyzes unwinding of the U4/U6 RNA duplex in the spliceosome.
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,National Acad Sciences,National Academy of Sciences,The National Academy of Sciences
Subject
Adenosine Triphosphate - metabolism
/ Humans
/ Kinetics
/ Nucleic Acid Heteroduplexes - metabolism
/ Proteins
/ Ribonucleoprotein, U4-U6 Small Nuclear - biosynthesis
/ Ribonucleoprotein, U4-U6 Small Nuclear - isolation & purification
/ Ribonucleoprotein, U4-U6 Small Nuclear - metabolism
/ Ribonucleoprotein, U5 Small Nuclear - chemistry
/ Ribonucleoprotein, U5 Small Nuclear - isolation & purification
/ Ribonucleoprotein, U5 Small Nuclear - metabolism
/ RNA
/ RNA Nucleotidyltransferases - metabolism
/ Saccharomyces cerevisiae - metabolism
/ Small nuclear ribonucleoproteins
/ Splicing
/ Yeasts
