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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 281, Issue 5, 2478-2488, February 3, 2006

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Heterogeneous Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein H Is Required for Optimal U11 Small Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein Binding to a Retroviral RNA-processing Control Element

IMPLICATIONS FOR U12-DEPENDENT RNA SPLICING^*

From the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226

An RNA-processing element from Rous sarcoma virus, the negative regulator of splicing (NRS), represses splicing to generate unspliced RNA that serves as mRNA and as genomic RNA for progeny virions and also promotes polyadenylation of the unspliced RNA. Integral to NRS function is the binding of U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (snRNP), but its binding is controlled by U11 snRNP that binds to an overlapping site. U11 snRNP, the U1 counterpart for splicing of U12-dependent introns, binds the NRS remarkably well and requires G-rich elements just downstream of the consensus U11 binding site. We present evidence that heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) H binds to the NRS G-rich elements and that hnRNP H is required for optimal U11 binding in vitro. It is further shown that hnRNP H (but not hnRNP F) can promote U11 binding and splicing from the NRS in vivo when tethered to the RNA as an MS2 fusion protein. Interestingly, 17% of the naturally occurring U12-dependent introns have at least two potential hnRNP H binding sites positioned similarly to the NRS. For two such introns from the SCN4A and P120 genes, we show that hnRNP H binds to each in a G-tract-dependent manner, that G-tract mutations strongly reduce splicing of minigene RNA, and that tethered hnRNP H restores splicing to mutant RNA. In support of a role for hnRNP H in both splicing pathways, hnRNP H antibodies co-precipitate U1 and U11 small nuclear ribonucleoproteins. These results indicate that hnRNP H is an auxiliary factor for U11 binding to the NRS and that, more generally, hnRNP H is a splicing factor for a subset of U12-dependent introns that harbor G-rich elements.

Received for publication, October 14, 2005

^* This work was supported by NCI, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service Grant R01 CA78709. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

¹ To whom correspondence should be addressed: Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd., Milwaukee, WI 53226. Tel.: 414-456-8749; Fax: 414-456-6535; E-mail: mtm{at}mcw.edu.

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