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The splicing landscape is globally reprogrammed during male meiosis

Schmid, R.; Grellscheid, S.N.; Ehrmann, I.; Dalgliesh, C.; Danilenko, M.; Paronetto, M.P.; Pedrotti, S.; Grellscheid, D.; Dixon, R.J.; Sette, C.; Eperon, I.C.; Elliott, D.J.

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Authors

R. Schmid

I. Ehrmann

C. Dalgliesh

M. Danilenko

M.P. Paronetto

S. Pedrotti

D. Grellscheid

R.J. Dixon

C. Sette

I.C. Eperon

D.J. Elliott



Abstract

Meiosis requires conserved transcriptional changes, but it is not known whether there is a corresponding set of RNA splicing switches. Here, we used RNAseq of mouse testis to identify changes associated with the progression from mitotic spermatogonia to meiotic spermatocytes. We identified ∼150 splicing switches, most of which affect conserved protein-coding exons. The expression of many key splicing regulators changed in the course of meiosis, including downregulation of polypyrimidine tract binding protein (PTBP1) and heterogeneous nuclear RNP A1, and upregulation of nPTB, Tra2β, muscleblind, CELF proteins, Sam68 and T-STAR. The sequences near the regulated exons were significantly enriched in target sites for PTB, Tra2β and STAR proteins. Reporter minigene experiments investigating representative exons in transfected cells showed that PTB binding sites were critical for splicing of a cassette exon in the Ralgps2 mRNA and a shift in alternative 5′ splice site usage in the Bptf mRNA. We speculate that nPTB might functionally replace PTBP1 during meiosis for some target exons, with changes in the expression of other splicing factors helping to establish meiotic splicing patterns. Our data suggest that there are substantial changes in the determinants and patterns of alternative splicing in the mitotic-to-meiotic transition of the germ cell cycle.

Citation

Schmid, R., Grellscheid, S., Ehrmann, I., Dalgliesh, C., Danilenko, M., Paronetto, M., …Elliott, D. (2013). The splicing landscape is globally reprogrammed during male meiosis. Nucleic Acids Research, 41(22), 10170-10184. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt811

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Aug 16, 2013
Publication Date Dec 1, 2013
Deposit Date Sep 17, 2013
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Nucleic Acids Research
Print ISSN 0305-1048
Electronic ISSN 1362-4962
Publisher Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 41
Issue 22
Pages 10170-10184
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt811

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