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Mol. Cell. Biol., Jun 1996, 2579-2584, Vol 16, No. 6
Copyright © 1996, American Society for Microbiology

The cap and the 3' splice site similarly affect polyadenylation efficiency

C Cooke and JC Alwine
Graduate Group of Molecular Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6142, USA.

The 5' cap of a mammalian pre-mRNA has been shown to interact with splicing components at the adjacent 5' splice site for processing of the first exon and the removal of the first intron (E. Izaurralde, J. Lewis, C. McGuigan, M. Jankowska, E. Darzynkiewicz, and I.W. Mattaj, Cell 78:657-668, 1994). Likewise, it has been shown that processing of the last exon and removal of the last intron involve interaction between splicing components at the 3' splice site and the polyadenylation complex at the polyadenylation signal (M. Niwa, S. D. Rose, and S.M. Berget, Genes Dev. 4:1552-1559, 1990; M. Niwa and S. M. Berget, Genes Dev. 5:2086-2095, 1991). These findings suggest that the cap provides a function in first exon processing which is similar to the function of the 3' splice site at last exon processing. To determine whether caps and 3' splice sites function similarly, we compared the effects of the cap and the 3' splice site on the in vitro utilization of the simian virus 40 late polyadenylation signal. We show that the presence of a m7GpppG cap, but not a cap analog, can positively affect the efficiency of polyadenylation of a polyadenylation-only substrate. Cap analogs do not stimulate polyadenylation because they fail to bind titratable cap-binding factors. The failure of cap analogs to stimulate polyadenylation can be overcome if a 3' splice site is present upstream of the polyadenylation signal. These data indicate that factors interacting with the cap or the 3' splice site function similarly to affect polyadenylation signal, along with m7GpppG cap, is inhibitory to polyadenylation. This finding suggests that the interaction between the cap-binding complexes and splicing components at the 5' splice site may form a complex which is inhibitory to further processing if splicing of an adjacent intron is not achieved.


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