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The calcitonin/CGRP gene is a complex transcription unit in which developmentally regulated cell-specific alternative RNA processing results in the production of CGRP mRNA in neurons, and of calcitonin mRNA in thyroid C cells. Alternative poly(A) site selection and exon splicing lead to the production of these alternative mature transcripts. The wild-type and a series of mutated calcitonin/CGRP genes were expressed in heterologous cell types, which produced predominantly calcitonin or CGRP mRNA. The results of these studies suggest that neurons express machinery or a factor that determines a specific alternative splicing pathway and consequently its associated alternative poly(A) site selection. It is hypothesized that a splice commitment regulatory factor might modulate pre-mRNA secondary structure, revealing a cryptic splice site required to generate CGRP mRNA in the brain.
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