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. 2021 Jan 28;12:636620. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2021.636620

TABLE 2.

Spliceosome protein genes associated with retinitis pigmentosa, including S. cerevisiae homologues, spliceosome complex, inheritance pattern, whether disease variants affect evolutionarily conserved amino acids and references.

Spliceosome factor gene S. cerevisiae homologue Spliceosome complex Type of retinitis pigmentosa Disease variants affect conserved amino acids Selected references
PRPF3 PRP3 U4/U6 snRNP and U4/U6.U5 tri-snRNP Autosomal dominant Yes Chakarova, 2002; Martinez-Gimeno et al., 2003; Gamundi et al., 2008; Zhong et al., 2016
PRPF4 PRP4 U4/U6 and U4/U6.U5 tri-snRNP Autosomal dominant Yes Benaglio et al., 2014; Chen et al., 2014; Linder et al., 2014
PRPF6 PRP6 U5 snRNP Autosomal dominant Yes Tanackovic et al., 2011a; Huang et al., 2015
PRPF8 PRP8 U5 snRNP Autosomal dominant Yes McKie et al., 2001; Erkenez et al., 2002; Martinez-Gimeno et al., 2003; Ziviello et al., 2005; Towns et al., 2010; Maubaret et al., 2011
PRPF16/DHX38 PRP16 Non-snRNP Autosomal recessive Yes Ajmal et al., 2014
PRPF31 PRP31 U4 snRNP Autosomal dominant Yes Vithana et al., 2001; Xia et al., 2004; Sullivan et al., 2006; Waseem et al., 2007; Frio et al., 2008; Jin et al., 2008; Xiao et al., 2017
RP9/PAP1 No homologue Non-snRNP Autosomal dominant NA Keen et al., 2002
SNRNP200 BRR2 U5 snRNP Autosomal dominant Yes Zhao et al., 2009; Li et al., 2010; Benaglio et al., 2011; Liu et al., 2012; Pan et al., 2014