Publication Date:
2011-04-09
Description:
Small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs) are essential factors in messenger RNA splicing. By means of homozygosity mapping and deep sequencing, we show that a gene encoding U4atac snRNA, a component of the minor U12-dependent spliceosome, is mutated in individuals with microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type I (MOPD I), a severe developmental disorder characterized by extreme intrauterine growth retardation and multiple organ abnormalities. Functional assays showed that mutations (30G〉A, 51G〉A, 55G〉A, and 111G〉A) associated with MOPD I cause defective U12-dependent splicing. Endogenous U12-dependent but not U2-dependent introns were found to be poorly spliced in MOPD I patient fibroblast cells. The introduction of wild-type U4atac snRNA into MOPD I cells enhanced U12-dependent splicing. These results illustrate the critical role of minor intron splicing in human development.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3380448/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3380448/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉He, Huiling -- Liyanarachchi, Sandya -- Akagi, Keiko -- Nagy, Rebecca -- Li, Jingfeng -- Dietrich, Rosemary C -- Li, Wei -- Sebastian, Nikhil -- Wen, Bernard -- Xin, Baozhong -- Singh, Jarnail -- Yan, Pearlly -- Alder, Hansjuerg -- Haan, Eric -- Wieczorek, Dagmar -- Albrecht, Beate -- Puffenberger, Erik -- Wang, Heng -- Westman, Judith A -- Padgett, Richard A -- Symer, David E -- de la Chapelle, Albert -- GM079527/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM093074/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P30 CA16058/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM079527/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM079527-04/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM093074/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM093074-01A1/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Apr 8;332(6026):238-40. doi: 10.1126/science.1200587.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Human Cancer Genetics Program, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21474760" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Cell Line
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Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2/genetics
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Dwarfism/genetics/metabolism
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Female
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Fetal Growth Retardation/genetics/metabolism
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Humans
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Introns
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Inverted Repeat Sequences
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Male
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Microcephaly/genetics/metabolism
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*Mutation
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Nucleic Acid Conformation
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Osteochondrodysplasias/genetics/metabolism
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Pedigree
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*RNA Splicing
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RNA, Small Nuclear/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism
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Spliceosomes/*genetics/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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