A small deletion distant from a splice or polyadenylation site dramatically alters pre-mRNA processing in region E3 of adenovirus - PubMed

A small deletion distant from a splice or polyadenylation site dramatically alters pre-mRNA processing in region E3 of adenovirus

B M Bhat et al. J Virol. 1987 Dec.

Abstract

The E3 complex transcription unit of adenovirus encodes overlapping mRNAs (a to i) with different exon structures. The major mRNAs are a (approximately 40% of the total) and c (approximately 15%), which are spliced once, and f (approximately 15%) and h (approximately 25%), which are spliced twice. mRNA a uses the upstream E3A polyadenylation site, and the other mRNAs use the downstream E3B polyadenylation site. We analyzed virus deletion mutants to identify sequences important in alternative pre-mRNA processing in region E3. Our main finding is that a 64-base-pair deletion in dl742 causes mainly mRNAs f and h to be formed. mRNAs a and c are barely made. dl742 does not delete either a splice site or a polyadenylation site. Thus, the sequences deleted must function in alternative pre-mRNA processing independently of the signals at the actual splice and polyadenylation sites. The lack of synthesis of mRNA a by dl742 does not appear to result from a defect in the E3A polyadenylation signal but rather from an increase in splicing activity which results in the synthesis of doubly spliced mRNAs f and h at the expense of singly spliced mRNAs a and c. This suggests, in the wild-type situation, that the frequency of use of the E3A versus the E3B polyadenylation site may be determined by the rate of splicing, as well as, presumably, the rate of cleavage-polyadenylation at the E3A site.

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