Activation of cryptic splice sites in murine sarcoma virus-124 mutants.
AUTOR(ES)
de Mars, M
RESUMO
We have examined splice site activation in relation to intron structure in murine sarcoma virus (MuSV)-124 RNA. MuSV-124 contains inactive murine leukemia virus env gene splice sites (termed 5' env and 3' env) as well as cryptic sites in the gag and v-mos genes (termed 5' gag and 3' mos) which are activated for thermosensitive splicing by a 1,487-base intronic deletion in the MuSV-124 derived MuSVts110 retrovirus. To determine conditions permissive for splice site activation, we examined MuSV-124 mutants deleted in the 1,919-base intron bounded by the 5' gag and 3' mos sites. Several of these deletions activated thermosensitive splicing either at the same sites used in MuSVts110 or in a previously unreported temperature-sensitive splice event between the 5' gag and 3' env sites. These data suggested that the thermosensitive splicing phenotype characteristic of MuSVts110 required neither a specialized intron nor selection of a particular 3' splice site. The 3' env and 3' mos sites were found to compete for splicing to the 5' gag site; the more upstream 3' env site was exclusively used in MuSV-124 mutants containing both sites, whereas selection of the 3' mos site required removal of the 3' env site. Branchpoint sequences were found to have a potential regulatory role in thermosensitive splicing. Insertion of a beta-globin branchpoint sequence in a splicing-inactive MuSV-124 mutant activated efficient nonthermosensitive splicing at the 3' mos site, whereas a mutated branchpoint activated less efficient but thermosensitive splicing.
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