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J. Virol., Oct 1995, 6170-6179, Vol 69, No. 10
Copyright © 1995, American Society for Microbiology

Efficient excision of the upstream large intron from P4-generated pre- mRNA of the parvovirus minute virus of mice requires at least one donor and the 3' splice site of the small downstream intron

Q Zhao, A Gersappe and DJ Pintel
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia 65212, USA.

We have previously shown that efficient excision of the upstream large intron from P4-generated pre-mRNA of the autonomous parvovirus minute virus of mice depends upon at least the initial presence of sequences within the downstream small intron (Q. Zhao, R. V. Schoborg, and D. J. Pintel, J. Virol. 68:2849-2859, 1994). In this report, we show that the requirement of downstream small intron sequences is complex and that efficient excision of the upstream intron requires at least one small intron donor and the 3' splice site. In the absence of both small intron donors, a new spliced product is produced in which the intervening exon is skipped and the large intron donor at nucleotide 514 is joined to a small intron acceptor. Exon skipping caused by the loss of the two small intron donors can be overcome, and the excision of the large intron can be regained by mutations that improve the large intron polypyrimidine tract. These results are consistent with a model in which the binding of multiple splicing factors that assemble at both a downstream donor and acceptor facilitates the binding of splicing factors to the weak polypyrimidine tract of the upstream large intron, thereby defining the intervening exon and promoting excision of the upstream intron.

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