TABLE 2.
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 |