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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 103, Issue 2 423-433, Copyright © 1992 by Company of Biologists

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Regulation of alternative splicing in the IIICS region of human fibronectin pre-mRNA encoding cell binding sites CS1 and CS5

HJ Mardon and G Sebastio
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK.

The cell binding sites CS1 and CS5 in the IIICS region of human fibronectin (FN) mediate the adhesion of specific cell types by interacting with the integrin alpha 4 beta 1. IIICS pre-mRNA is alternatively spliced via the use of three alternative splice acceptor sites and one alternative splice donor site. These alternative splicing pathways can potentially give rise to variant FN molecules which are CS1+,CS5+; CS1+,CS5-; CS1-,CS5+ or CS1-,CS5-. Here we show that selection of the acceptor site which incorporates mRNA encoding CS1 and CS5 is more frequent in foetal tissues compared to adult liver, whereas an alternative acceptor site and the alternative donor site, which exclude CS1 and CS5, are used at a higher level in adult liver compared to foetal tissue. All possible splice junctions were accurately processed, and selected at different levels in mRNA expressed from a IIICS minigene transiently transfected into a HeLa cell line which does not express FN, suggesting that all the cellular factors required for alternative processing of IIICS are present in this system. Furthermore, pre-mRNA expressed from a mutant construct lacking IIICS-1 intron sequence, was correctly processed in HeLa cells via selection of all possible splice sites. On the basis of our results we propose that regulation of splice site selection in IIICS and thus expression of CS1 and CS5 is achieved by subtle tuning of splicing systems involving the interaction of local cis elements and cellular factors which are not necessarily restricted developmentally or tissue-specifically, and that expression of CS1 and CS5 is independently regulated.
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