Global donor and acceptor splicing site kinetics in human cells

© 2019, Wachutka et al..

RNA splicing is an essential part of eukaryotic gene expression. Although the mechanism of splicing has been extensively studied in vitro, in vivo kinetics for the two-step splicing reaction remain poorly understood. Here, we combine transient transcriptome sequencing (TT-seq) and mathematical modeling to quantify RNA metabolic rates at donor and acceptor splice sites across the human genome. Splicing occurs in the range of minutes and is limited by the speed of RNA polymerase elongation. Splicing kinetics strongly depends on the position and nature of nucleotides flanking splice sites, and on structural interactions between unspliced RNA and small nuclear RNAs in spliceosomal intermediates. Finally, we introduce the 'yield' of splicing as the efficiency of converting unspliced to spliced RNA and show that it is highest for mRNAs and independent of splicing kinetics. These results lead to quantitative models describing how splicing rates and yield are encoded in the human genome.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

eLife - 8(2019) vom: 26. Apr.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wachutka, Leonhard [VerfasserIn]
Caizzi, Livia [VerfasserIn]
Gagneur, Julien [VerfasserIn]
Cramer, Patrick [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Co-transcriptional splicing
Computational biology
Gene regulatory elements
Genetics
Genomics
Human
Journal Article
Metabolic labeling
RNA metabolism
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Splicing kinetic
Splicing yield
Systems biology

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 24.02.2020

Date Revised 09.01.2021

published: Electronic

GEO: GSE129635, GSE75792, GSE53328

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.7554/eLife.45056

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM296459313