In vivo splicing products of the rabbit β-globin pre-mRNA

Abstract Analysis of the rabbit β-globin transcripts present in the steady-state RNA population of fetal liver reveals that there is no strict order in the removal of the two introns from the pre-mRNA, though IVS1 seems to be preferentially eliminated first. The population of RNA molecules contains, among other splicing products, two forms of full-length IVS2 (and presumably of IVS1), released from exon sequences. One of these forms is linear, while the other has a lariat structure (circle with tail), which results from looping of the intron sequence to itself and formation of a covalent bond between the 5′ end and an internal IVS2 position at a distance of 31 bases from the 3′ splice site. This branching point maps at the penultimate position of the heptamer TGCTAAC. Branched Y-forms of IVS2, presumably resulting from nicking of the lariat loop (in vivo or during purification) are also detected. Comparison of in vivo RNA with in vitro splicing products reveals corresponding lariat forms. However, the in vivo linear intron species are absent from the in vitro products, which, in contrast, contain more than one intron conformer.

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