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Volume 271, Number 40, Issue of October 4, 1996 pp. 24922-24926
©1996 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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The C-group Heterogeneous Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein Proteins Bind to the 5 Stem-Loop of the U2 Small Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein Particle

(Received for publication, June 13, 1996)

From the Cell Biology Group, Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts 01545

The C-group heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) proteins bind to nascent pre-messenger RNA. In vitro studies have indicated that the C hnRNP proteins bind particularly strongly to the intron polypyrimidine tract of pre-mRNA and may be important for pre-mRNA splicing. In addition, there is evidence that the interaction of the C hnRNP proteins with pre-mRNA is facilitated by the U1 and U2 small nuclear RNPs (snRNPs). In the present study, we have uncovered another feature of the C hnRNP proteins that may provide a unifying framework for these previous observations; the C hnRNP proteins bind to the 5 stem-loop of the U2 snRNP. This was detected by incubating human ³²P-labeled U2 snRNP in micrococcal nuclease-treated HeLa nuclear extracts, followed by UV-mediated protein-RNA cross-linking, which revealed that C hnRNP proteins were cross-linked to ³²P-nucleotides in the U2 snRNP. In similar experiments, no cross-linking of C hnRNP proteins to ³²P-labeled U1 or U4 snRNPs was observed. The observed cross-linking of C hnRNP proteins to U2 snRNP was efficiently competed by excess U2 RNA and by poly(U) but not by poly(A). No competition was observed with an RNA molecule comprising U2 nucleotides 105-189, indicating that the C hnRNP protein interactive regions of U2 RNA reside solely in the 5 half of the molecule. Oligodeoxynucleotide-mediated RNase H cleavage experiments revealed that a 5 region of U2 RNA including nucleotides 15-28 is essential for the observed C hnRNP protein cross-linking. C hnRNP protein cross-linking to U2 snRNP was efficiently competed by a mini-RNA corresponding to the first 29 nucleotides of U2 RNA, whereas no competition was observed with a variant of this mini-RNA in which the UUUU loop of stem-loop I was mutationally configured into a single-stranded RNA by replacing the stem with non-pairing nucleotides. Competition experiments with another mutant mini-U2 RNA in which the UUUU loop was replaced by AAAA indicated that both the UUUU loop and the stem are important for C hnRNP protein cross-linking, a finding consistent with other recent data on the RNA sequence specificity of C hnRNP protein binding.

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