scholarly journals Decision letter: An ancient germ cell-specific RNA-binding protein protects the germline from cryptic splice site poisoning

2018 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Ehrmann ◽  
James H Crichton ◽  
Matthew R Gazzara ◽  
Katherine James ◽  
Yilei Liu ◽  
...  

eLife ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Ehrmann ◽  
James H Crichton ◽  
Matthew R Gazzara ◽  
Katherine James ◽  
Yilei Liu ◽  
...  

Male germ cells of all placental mammals express an ancient nuclear RNA binding protein of unknown function called RBMXL2. Here we find that deletion of the retrogene encoding RBMXL2 blocks spermatogenesis. Transcriptome analyses of age-matched deletion mice show that RBMXL2 controls splicing patterns during meiosis. In particular, RBMXL2 represses the selection of aberrant splice sites and the insertion of cryptic and premature terminal exons. Our data suggest a Rbmxl2 retrogene has been conserved across mammals as part of a splicing control mechanism that is fundamentally important to germ cell biology. We propose that this mechanism is essential to meiosis because it buffers the high ambient concentrations of splicing activators, thereby preventing poisoning of key transcripts and disruption to gene expression by aberrant splice site selection.


2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 452-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debin Xue ◽  
Yan Peng ◽  
Fenghua Wang ◽  
Robert W Allan ◽  
Dengfeng Cao

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (17) ◽  
pp. 6287-6299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabienne Del Gatto-Konczak ◽  
Cyril F. Bourgeois ◽  
Caroline Le Guiner ◽  
Liliane Kister ◽  
Marie-Claude Gesnel ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 2803-2818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Ehrmann ◽  
Caroline Dalgliesh ◽  
Aikaterini Tsaousi ◽  
Maria Paola Paronetto ◽  
Bettina Heinrich ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dengfeng Cao ◽  
Aijun Liu ◽  
Fenghua Wang ◽  
Robert W Allan ◽  
Kaiyong Mei ◽  
...  

PLoS ONE ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. e26948 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daw-Jen Tsuei ◽  
Po-Huang Lee ◽  
Hsiao-Yu Peng ◽  
Shau-Lin Lu ◽  
De-Shiuan Su ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (7) ◽  
pp. 2759-2768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessie M. Sutherland ◽  
Alexander P. Sobinoff ◽  
Barbara A. Fraser ◽  
Kate A. Redgrove ◽  
Tara‐Lynne Davidson ◽  
...  

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