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Nucleolin Interacts and Co-Localizes with Components of Pre-Catalytic Spliceosome Complexes

Version 1 : Received: 4 June 2019 / Approved: 25 June 2019 / Online: 1 July 2019 (00:00:00 CEST)

How to cite: Ugrinova, I.; Chalabi-Dchar, M.; Monier, K.; Bouvet, P. Nucleolin Interacts and Co-Localizes with Components of Pre-Catalytic Spliceosome Complexes. Preprints 2020, 2020110086. https://doi.org/10.3390/sci1020033 Ugrinova, I.; Chalabi-Dchar, M.; Monier, K.; Bouvet, P. Nucleolin Interacts and Co-Localizes with Components of Pre-Catalytic Spliceosome Complexes. Preprints 2020, 2020110086. https://doi.org/10.3390/sci1020033

Abstract

Nucleolin is an RNA binding protein that is involved in many post-transcriptional regulation steps of messenger RNAs in addition to its nucleolar role in ribosomal RNA transcription and assembly in pre-ribosomes. Acetylated nucleolin was found to be associated with nuclear speckles and to co-localize with the splicing factor SC35. Previous nuclear pull down of nucleolin identified several splicing components and factors involved in RNA polymerase II transcription associated with nucleolin. In this report, we show that these splicing components are specifics of the pre-catalytic A and B spliceosomes, while proteins recruited in the Bact, C and P complexes are absent from the nucleolin interacting proteins. Furthermore, we show that acetylated nucleolin co-localized with P-SF3B1, a marker of co-transcriptional active spliceosomes. P-SF3B1 complexes can be pulled down with nucleolin specific antibodies. Interestingly, the alternative splicing of Fibronectin at the IIICS and EDB sites was affected by nucleolin depletion. These data are consistent with a model where nucleolin could be a factor bridging RNA polymerase II transcription and assembly of pre-catalytic spliceosome similarly to its function in the co-transcriptional maturation of pre-rRNA.

Keywords

nucleolin; spliceosome assembly; splicing factors; immunofluorescence; proteomic

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology

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