酵母基因组几条（Cell施一公教授拼接酵母剪接体结构的最后拼图）

真核生物pre-mRNA剪接由超分子复合物剪接体（spliceosome）完成。完整的剪接过程主要分为八种不同的状态，预催化剪接体的前体（pre-B），预催化剪接体（B），活化复合物（Bact），催化活化复合物（B*），催化步骤I复合物 （C），催化步骤II活化复合物（C*），催化后剪接体（P）和内含子套索剪接体（ILS）。

自2015年第一个近原子分辨率、来自S. pombe的剪接体结构通过Cryo-EM技术被解析以来，已经陆续有多个不同状态的剪接体被解析。其中有13个分辨率在3.3-5.8 Å之间的酵母剪接体和11个人源剪接体已经被解析，这些剪接体分布在催化过程中的七种状态中。在此之前，只剩下B*复合物结构尚未被解析。

2019年3月14日，Cell 杂志在线online了来自施一公课题组（万蕊雪和白蕊为共同第一作者）关于酵母剪接体的研究长文，题为Structures of the Catalytically Activated Yeast Spliceosome Reveal the Mechanism of Branching。这篇文章报道了2.9–3.8 Å酵母剪接体的B*复合物Cryo-EM结构，完成了剪接催化过程中几个主要步骤的最后一块拼图。

在这项研究中，施一公课题组组装了来自酿酒酵母的含有两种不同的pre-mRNA的B*复合物，其中在ACT1 pre-mRNA上组装的B*复合物平均分辨率2.9 Å；在UBC4 pre-mRNA上组装的B*复合物平均分辨率3.2 Å。对于这两种不同的B*复合物中的每一种，又观察到了两种不同的构象状态（图1 A和B）。不同pre-mRNA上的这些结构揭示了在主要功能状态下剪接体的底物特异性构象，为揭示对branching反应的机理提供了重要参考。

图1. 酵母中B*复合物结构

原文链接：

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2019.02.006

附施一公实验室有关剪接体的论文列表：

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