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Originally published in Science Express on 15 December 2005
Science 13 January 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5758, pp. 230 - 232
DOI: 10.1126/science.1118265
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The snoRNA HBII-52 Regulates Alternative Splicing of the Serotonin Receptor 2C

Shivendra Kishore and Stefan Stamm*

The Prader-Willi syndrome is a congenital disease that is caused by the loss of paternal gene expression from a maternally imprinted region on chromosome 15. This region contains a small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA), HBII-52, that exhibits sequence complementarity to the alternatively spliced exon Vb of the serotonin receptor 5-HT2CR. We found that HBII-52 regulates alternative splicing of 5-HT2CR by binding to a silencing element in exon Vb. Prader-Willi syndrome patients do not express HBII-52. They have different 5-HT2CR messenger RNA (mRNA) isoforms than healthy individuals. Our results show that a snoRNA regulates the processing of an mRNA expressed from a gene located on a different chromosome, and the results indicate that a defect in pre-mRNA processing contributes to the Prader-Willi syndrome.

Institut für Biochemie, Emil-Fischer-Zentrum, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Fahrstraße 17, 91054 Erlangen, Germany.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: stefan{at}stamms-lab.net

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