An extragenic suppressor of prp24-1 defines genetic interaction between PRP24 and PRP21 gene products of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Vaidya, Vaijayanti C and Seshadri, Vasudevan and Vijayraghavan, Usha (1996) An extragenic suppressor of prp24-1 defines genetic interaction between PRP24 and PRP21 gene products of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In: Molecular and General Genetics MGG, 250 (3). 267 -276.

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Abstract

The temperature-sensitive prp24-1 mutation defines a gene product required for the first step in pre-mRNA splicing. PRP24 is probably a component of the U6 snRNP particle. We have applied genetic reversion analysis to identify proteins that interact with PRP24. Spontaneous revertants of the temperature-sensitive (ts) prp24-1 phenotype were analyzed for those that are due to extragenic suppression. We then extended our analysis to screen for suppressors that confer a distinct conditional phenotype. We have identified a temperature-sensitive extragenic suppressor, which was shown by genetic complementation analysis to be allelic to prp21-1. This suppressor, prp21-2, accumulates pre-mRNA at the non-permissive temperature, a phenotype similar to that of prp21-1. prp21-2 completely suppresses the splicing defect and restores in vivo levels of the U6 snRNA in the prp24-1 strain. Genetic analysis of the suppressor showed that prp21-2 is not a bypass suppressor of prp24-1. The suppression of prp24-1 by prp21-2 is gene specific and also allele specific with respect to both the loci. Genetic interactions with other components of the pre-spliceosome have also been studied. Our results indicate an interaction between PRP21, a component of the U2 snRNP, and PRP24, a component of the U6 snRNP. These results substantiate other data showing U2-U6 snRNA interactions.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Molecular and General Genetics MGG
Publisher:	Springer
Additional Information:	copyright of this article belongs to Springer.
Keywords:	Pre-mRNA splicing;Saccharomyces cerevisiae;Suppressors;prp24-1.
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Microbiology & Cell Biology
Date Deposited:	18 Jan 2010 09:50
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:53
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/25081

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