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RNA duplex formation between U1 snRNA and a splice donor (SD) site can protect pre-mRNA from degradation prior to splicing and initiates formation of the spliceosome. This process was monitored, using sub-genomic HIV-1 expression vectors, by expression analysis of the glycoprotein env, whose formation critically depends on functional SD4. We systematically derived a hydrogen bond model for the complementarity between the free 5' end of U1 snRNA and 5' splice sites and numerous mutations following transient transfection of HeLa-T4+ cells with 5' splice site mutated vectors. The resulting model takes into account number, interdependence and neighborhood relationships of predicted hydrogen bond formation in a region spanning the three most 3' base pairs of the exon (-3 to -1) and the eight most 5' base pairs of the intron (+1 to +8). The model is represented by an algorithm classifying U1 snRNA binding sites which can or cannot functionally substitute SD4 with respect to Rev-mediated env expression. In a data set of 5' splice site mutations of the human ATM gene we found a significant correlation between the algorithmic classification and exon skipping (P = 0.018, chi2-test), showing that the applicability of the proposed model reaches far beyond HIV-1 splicing. However, the algorithmic classification must not be taken as an absolute measure of SD usage as it may be modified by upstream sequence elements. Upstream to SD4 we identified a fragment supporting ASF/SF2 binding. Mutating GAR nucleotide repeats within this site decreased the SD4-dependent Rev-mediated env expression, which could be balanced simply by artificially increasing the complementarity of SD4.
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PMID:A novel approach to describe a U1 snRNA binding site. 1462 29

Tumor suppressor p53-binding protein 1 (53BP1) regulates the repair of dysfunctional telomeres lacking the shelterin protein TRF2 by promoting their mobility, their nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ), and, as we show here, by blocking 5' resection by CtIP. We report that these functions of 53BP1 required its N-terminal ATM/ATR target sites and its association with H4K20diMe, but not the BRCT domain, the GAR domain, or the binding of 53BP1 to dynein. A mutant lacking the oligomerization domain (53BP1(oligo)) was only modestly impaired in promoting NHEJ of dysfunctional telomeres and showed no defect with regard to the repression of CtIP. This 53BP1(oligo) allele was previously found to be unable to support class switch recombination or to promote radial chromosome formation in PARP1 inhibitor-treated Brca1-deficient cells. The data therefore support two conclusions. First, the requirements for 53BP1 in mediating NHEJ at dysfunctional telomeres and in class switch recombination are not identical. Second, 53BP1-dependent repression of CtIP at double-strand breaks (DSBs) is unlikely to be sufficient for the generation of radial chromosomes in PARP1 inhibitor-treated Brca1-deficient cells.
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PMID:Role of 53BP1 oligomerization in regulating double-strand break repair. 2334 25