Holcik Martin, Graber Tyson, Lewis Stephen M, Lefebvre Charles A, Lacasse Eric, Baird Stephen
Apoptosis Research Center, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada.
RNA. 2005 Nov;11(11):1605-9. doi: 10.1261/rna.2158605. Epub 2005 Sep 21.
X-chromosome-linked inhibitor of apoptosis, XIAP, has been shown to contain a strong internal ribosome entry site (IRES) within its 5' untranslated region (UTR) that promotes translation of XIAP mRNA under conditions of cellular stress. This claim came under scrutiny in a recent report demonstrating that the XIAP 5' UTR undergoes splicing when inserted between the two reporter cistrons of the dual luciferase plasmid Rluc/Fluc. In this paper, we demonstrate that the splicing within the XIAP 5' UTR specifically occurs only in the context of mRNA produced from the Rluc/Fluc but not the pbetagal/CAT bicistronic reporter plasmid.
X染色体连锁凋亡抑制蛋白(XIAP)已被证明在其5'非翻译区(UTR)内含有一个强大的内部核糖体进入位点(IRES),该位点在细胞应激条件下促进XIAP mRNA的翻译。最近的一份报告对这一说法进行了审查,该报告表明,当XIAP 5'UTR插入双荧光素酶质粒Rluc/Fluc的两个报告顺反子之间时会发生剪接。在本文中,我们证明XIAP 5'UTR内的剪接仅在Rluc/Fluc产生的mRNA背景下特异性发生,而不是在pbetagal/CAT双顺反子报告质粒产生的mRNA背景下发生。