Pairwise Engineering of Tandemly Aligned Self-Splicing Group I Introns for Analysis and Control of Their Alternative Splicing
2023
Tomoki Ueda | Kei-ichiro Nishimura | Yuka Nishiyama | Yuto Tominaga | Katsushi Miyazaki | Hiroyuki Furuta | Shigeyoshi Matsumura | Yoshiya Ikawa
Alternative splicing is an important mechanism in the process of eukaryotic nuclear mRNA precursors producing multiple protein products from a single gene. Although group I self-splicing introns usually perform regular splicing, limited examples of alternative splicing have also been reported. The exon-skipping type of splicing has been observed in genes containing two group I introns. To characterize splicing patterns (exon-skipping/exon-inclusion) of tandemly aligned group I introns, we constructed a reporter gene containing two <i>Tetrahymena</i> introns flanking a short exon. To control splicing patterns, we engineered the two introns in a pairwise manner to design pairs of introns that selectively perform either exon-skipping or exon-inclusion splicing. Through pairwise engineering and biochemical characterization, the structural elements important for the induction of exon-skipping splicing were elucidated.
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