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Splicing regulation at the second catalytic step by Sex-lethal involves 3' splice site recognition by SPF45.
Cell - 3 May 2002
Lallena María José, Chalmers Kevin J, Llamazares Salud, Lamond Angus I, Valcárcel Juan
Abstract excerpt
The Drosophila protein Sex-lethal (SXL) promotes skipping of exon 3 from its own pre-mRNA. An unusual sequence arrangement of two AG dinucleotides and an intervening polypyrimidine (Py)-tract at the 3' end of intron 2 is important for Sxl autoregulation. Here we show that U2AF interacts with the Py-tract and downstream AG, whereas the spliceosomal protein SPF45 interacts with the upstream AG and activates it for...
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