Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

A multi-factor trafficking site on the spliceosome remodeling enzyme BRR2 recruits C9ORF78 to regulate alternative splicing

  • Alexandra Bergfort,
  • Marco Preußner,
  • Benno Kuropka,
  • İbrahim Avşar Ilik,
  • Tarek Hilal,
  • Gert Weber,
  • Christian Freund,
  • Tuğçe Aktaş,
  • Florian Heyd,
  • Markus C. Wahl

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28754-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Bergfort et al. use biochemistry, cryoEM, structure-guided mutagenesis, transcriptomics and proteomics to reveal how the intrinsically unstructured C9ORF78 protein binds BRR2 and PRPF8, regulating cassette exons and alternative 3’-splice sites.