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. 2024 Dec 16;31(1):43-50.
doi: 10.1261/rna.080142.124.

Conserved role for spliceosomal component PRPF40A in microexon splicing

Bikash Choudhary  1 , Adam Norris  2
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Conserved role for spliceosomal component PRPF40A in microexon splicing

Bikash Choudhary et al. RNA. .

Abstract

Microexons (exons ≤30 nt) are important features of neuronal transcriptomes, but pose mechanistic challenges to the splicing machinery. We previously showed that PRP-40, a component of the U1 spliceosome, is globally required for microexon splicing in Caenorhabditis elegans Here we show that the homologous PRPF40A is also globally required for microexon splicing in mouse neuroblastoma cells. We find that PRPF40A coregulates microexons along with SRRM4, a neuron-specific regulator of microexon splicing. The relationship between exon size and dependence on PRPF40A/SRRM4 is distinct, with SRRM4-dependence exhibiting a size threshold (∼30 nt) and PRPF40A-dependence exhibiting a graded decrease as exon size increases. Finally, we show that PRPF40A knockdown causes an increase in productive splicing of its spliceosomal binding partner Luc7l by the skipping of a small "poison exon." Similar homeostatic cross-regulation is often observed across paralogous RNA-binding proteins. Here we find this concept likewise applies across evolutionarily unrelated but functionally and physically coupled spliceosomal components.

Keywords: microexon; splicing.

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