Article
Specific splicing defects in S. pombe carrying a degron allele of the Survival of Motor Neuron gene.
The EMBO journal - 2 Jun 2010
Campion Yannick, Neel Henry, Gostan Thierry, Soret Johann, Bordonné Rémy
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy results from deletions or mutations in the survival of motor neuron (SMN1) gene. The SMN protein has an essential role in the biogenesis of spliceosomal snRNPs, but the link between a defect in this process and specific splicing inhibition of pre-mRNAs has not been established. In this study, we report the construction of a temperature-degron (td) allele of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe...
Topics
- Alleles
- Cell Nucleus
- Genes, Fungal
- Humans
- Introns
- Motor Neurons
- Muscular Atrophy, Spinal
- Mutation
- RNA Precursors
- RNA Splicing
- Ribonucleoproteins
- Ribonucleoproteins, Small Nuclear
