Human Molecular Genetics, Vol 5, 95-102, Copyright © 1996 by Oxford University Press
A Sittler, D Devys, C Weber and JL Mandel
Impaired expression of the FMR1 gene is responsible for the fragile X
mental retardation syndrome. The FMR1 gene encodes a cytoplasmic protein
with RNA-binding properties. Its complex alternative splicing leads to
several isoforms, whose abundance and specific functions in the cell are
not known. We have cloned in expression vectors, cDNAs corresponding to
several isoforms. Western blot comparison of the pattern of endogenous FMR1
proteins with these transfected isoforms allowed the tentative
identification of the major endogenous isoform as ISO 7 and of a minor band
as an isoform lacking exon 14 sequences (ISO 6 or ISO 12), while some other
isoforms (ISO 4, ISO 5) were not expressed at detectable levels.
Surprisingly, in immunofluorescence studies, the transfected splice
variants that exclude exon 14 sequences (and have alternate C-terminal
regions) were shown to be nuclear. Such differential localisation was
however not seen in subcellular fractionation studies. Analysis of various
deletion mutants suggests the presence of a cytoplasmic retention domain
encoded in exon 14 and of a nuclear association domain encoded within the
first eight exons that appear however to lack a typical nuclear
localisation signal.
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Alternative splicing of exon 14 determines nuclear or cytoplasmic localisation of fmr1 protein isoforms
Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, INSERM, Strasbourg, France.
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