Splice site selection, rate of splicing, and alternative splicing on nascent transcripts
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Splice site selection, rate of splicing, and alternative splicing on nascent transcripts
Abstract
Based on ultrastructural analysis of actively transcribing genes seen in electron micrographs, we present evidence that pre-mRNA splicing occurs with a reasonable frequency on the nascent transcripts of early Drosophila embryo genes and that splice site selection may generally precede polyadenylation. The details of the process observed are in agreement with results from in vitro splicing systems but differ in the more rapid completion of in vivo splicing. For those introns that are removed cotranscriptionally, a series of events is initiated following 3' splice site synthesis, beginning with ribonucleoprotein (RNP) particle formation at the 3' splice site within 48 sec, intron loop formation within 2 min, and splicing within 3 min. The initiation of the process is correlated with 3' splice site synthesis but is independent of 5' splice site synthesis, the position of the intron within the transcript, and the age or length of the transcript. In some cases, introns are removed from the 5' end of a transcript before introns are synthesized at the 3' end, supporting a possible role for the order of transcription in splice site pairing. In general, our observations are consistent with the 'first-come-first-served' principle of splice site selection, although an observed example of exon skipping indicates that alternative splicing possibilities can be accommodated within this general framework.
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