TY - JOUR
T1 - Structural elucidation of a PRP8 core domain from the heart of the spliceosome
AU - Ritchie, Dustin B.
AU - Schellenberg, Matthew J.
AU - Gesner, Emily M.
AU - Raithatha, Sheetal A.
AU - Stuart, David T.
AU - MacMillan, Andrew M.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank C. Guthrie (University of California, San Francisco) for providing yeast strain YTB72 and the plasmid pJU186MAS, B. Hazes for technical assistance, and M. Glover and T. Wu for helpful discussions. This work was supported by an Operating Grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and by funding from the Alberta Synchrotron Institute.
PY - 2008/11/27
Y1 - 2008/11/27
N2 - The spliceosome is a complex ribonucleoprotein (RNP) particle containing five RNAs and more than 100 associated proteins. One of these proteins, PRP8, has been shown to interact directly with the splice sites and branch region of precursor-mRNAs (pre-mRNAs) and spliceosomal RNAs associated with catalysis of the two steps of splicing. The 1.85-Å X-ray structure of the core of PRP8 domain IV, implicated in key spliceosomal interactions, reveals a bipartite structure that includes the presence of an RNase H fold linked to a five-helix assembly. Analysis of mutant yeast alleles and cross-linking results in the context of this structure, coupled with RNA binding studies, suggests that domain IV forms a surface that interacts directly with the RNA structures at the catalytic core of the spliceosome.
AB - The spliceosome is a complex ribonucleoprotein (RNP) particle containing five RNAs and more than 100 associated proteins. One of these proteins, PRP8, has been shown to interact directly with the splice sites and branch region of precursor-mRNAs (pre-mRNAs) and spliceosomal RNAs associated with catalysis of the two steps of splicing. The 1.85-Å X-ray structure of the core of PRP8 domain IV, implicated in key spliceosomal interactions, reveals a bipartite structure that includes the presence of an RNase H fold linked to a five-helix assembly. Analysis of mutant yeast alleles and cross-linking results in the context of this structure, coupled with RNA binding studies, suggests that domain IV forms a surface that interacts directly with the RNA structures at the catalytic core of the spliceosome.
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U2 - 10.1038/nsmb.1505
DO - 10.1038/nsmb.1505
M3 - Article
C2 - 18836455
AN - SCOPUS:55549121900
SN - 1545-9993
VL - 15
SP - 1199
EP - 1205
JO - Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
JF - Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
IS - 11
ER -