被编码的前子被编码了
J M Nigro1, K R Cho, E R Fearon
1Oncology Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231.
Cell
|February 8, 1991
概括
研究人员发现了杂乱的RNA转录,在这种转录中,基因外基因在拼接过程中失序. 这种新型的RNA产品形成挑战了对基因表达和RNA处理的传统理解.
科学领域:
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 遗传学 是一个遗传学.
- 在RNA分离过程中.
背景情况:
- 替代RNA拼接是产生蛋白质多样性的关键机制.
- 在拼接过程中,外显子连接的精确顺序对于产生功能转录至关重要.
- 候选瘤抑制基因DCC与细胞生长和发育有关.
研究的目的:
- 调查异常RNA拼接事件的发生和性质.
- 为了识别由非顺序的外因子结合产生的新型RNA产物.
- 了解正常和瘤细胞中编码转录的含义.
主要方法:
- 敏感的RNA表达试验被用来检测不寻常的转录.
- 用聚合酶链反应 (PCR) 放大来分离特定的RNA段.
- 使用克隆和测序技术来确定异常转录的确切结构.
主要成果:
- 鉴定出了多个DCC基因的异常拼接的转录.
- 这些转录中的前基因在拼接地点准确地连接在一起,但是在一个混乱的顺序.
- 描述了四种不同类型的编码转录,每种都涉及不同的表子对.
- 在各种正常和癌细胞中,低水平的编码转录被检测到,主要是在非多聚化细胞质RNA中.
结论:
- 拼接机器可以以非顺序的顺序连接外子,偏离基因组DNA排列.
- 这一过程产生了具有潜在改变功能的新型RNA产品.
- 这些发现揭示了RNA处理的以前未知的机制,对基因表达调节有影响.
相关概念视频
Organization of Genes
Overview
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Exon shuffling follows “splice frame rules.” Each exon has three reading...
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Alternative RNA Splicing
Alternative RNA splicing is the regulated splicing of exons and introns to produce different mature mRNAs from a single pre-mRNA. Unlike in constitutive splicing where a single gene produces a single type of mRNA, alternative splicing allows an organism to produce multiple proteins from a single gene and plays an important role in protein diversity.
There are five types of alternative RNA splicing that vary in the ways the pre-mRNA segments are removed or retained in the mature mRNA. The first...
There are five types of alternative RNA splicing that vary in the ways the pre-mRNA segments are removed or retained in the mature mRNA. The first...


