Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2013
College/Unit
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
Department/Program/Center
Biochemistry
Abstract
The serotonin receptor 2C plays a central role in mood and appetite control. It undergoes pre-mRNA editing as well as alternative splicing. The RNA editing suggests that the pre-mRNA forms a stable secondary structure in vivo. To identify substances that promote alternative exons inclusion, we set up a high-throughput screen and identified pyrvinium pamoate as a drug-promoting exon inclusion without editing. Circular dichroism spectroscopy indicates that pyrvinium pamoate binds directly to the pre-mRNA and changes its structure. SHAPE (selective 2′-hydroxyl acylation analysed by primer extension) assays show that part of the regulated 5′-splice site forms intramolecular base pairs that are removed by this structural change, which likely allows splice site recognition and exon inclusion. Genome-wide analyses show that pyrvinium pamoate regulates >300 alternative exons that form secondary structures enriched in A–U base pairs. Our data demonstrate that alternative splicing of structured pre-mRNAs can be regulated by small molecules that directly bind to the RNA, which is reminiscent to an RNA riboswitch.
Digital Commons Citation
Shen, Manli; Bellaousov, Stanislav; Hiller, Michael; Grange, Pierre de La; Creamer, Trevor P.; Malina, Orit; Sperling, Ruth; Mathews, David H.; Stoilov, Peter; and Stamm, Stefan, "Pyrvinium pamoate changes alternative splicing of the serotonin receptor 2C by influencing its RNA structure" (2013). Faculty & Staff Scholarship. 2607.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/faculty_publications/2607
Source Citation
Shen, M., Bellaousov, S., Hiller, M., de La Grange, P., Creamer, T. P., Malina, O., Sperling, R., Mathews, D. H., Stoilov, P., & Stamm, S. (2013). Pyrvinium pamoate changes alternative splicing of the serotonin receptor 2C by influencing its RNA structure. Nucleic Acids Research, 41(6), 3819–3832. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt063
Comments
ß The Author(s) 2013. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.