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Published on April 20, 2004; 10.1105/tpc.020743

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Received January 6, 2004
Accepted February 25, 2004

Determinants of Plant U12-Dependent Intron Splicing Efficiency

Dominika Lewandowska 1, Craig G. Simpson 2, Gillian P. Clark 2, Nikki S. Jennings 2, Maria Barciszewska-Pacak 1, Chiao-Feng Lin 3, Wojciech Makalowski 3, John W.S. Brown 2*, and Artur Jarmolowski 1

1 Department of Gene Expression, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan 60-371, Poland
2 Gene Expression Programme, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland, United Kingdom
3 Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics and Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jbrown{at}scri.sari.ac.uk.

Factors affecting splicing of plant U12-dependent introns have been examined by extensive mutational analyses in an in vivo tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) protoplast system using introns from three different Arabidopsis thaliana genes: CBP20, GSH2, and LD. The results provide evidence that splicing efficiency of plant U12 introns depends on a combination of factors, including UA content, exon bridging interactions between the U12 intron and flanking U2-dependent introns, and exon splicing enhancer sequences (ESEs). Unexpectedly, all three plant U12 introns required an adenosine at the upstream purine position in the branchpoint consensus UCCUURAUY. The exon upstream of the LD U12 intron is a major determinant of its higher level of splicing efficiency and potentially contains two ESE regions. These results suggest that in plants, U12 introns represent a level at which expression of their host genes can be regulated.




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