For the information for chimeras, see the diagram in Figure 2A. Transfections were preformed in COS-M6 cells. To determine whether the CELF4 residues required for splicing repression are the same or different from those required for splicing activation, we constructed a minigene containing the human NMDA R1 exon 5. In this construct, splicing of the human NMDA R1 exon 5 inclusion is repressed by ETR-3 data not shown , although very weakly compared with the rat exon To further define the residues required for repression, we tested the deletion constructs used to define the residues required for the activation of cTNT and PTB, as described above.
Interestingly, deletion of — significantly decreased the splicing activity and deletion of — completely abolished the splicing activity Figure 4F. To further define residues within both regions that are important for the activation of cTNT exon 5, we sequentially deleted 10 amino acids from the termini of the active N- and C-terminal fragments Figure 5A.
From this analysis, we conclude that unlike CELF4, the residues within ETR-3 that are required for the activation are dispersed throughout the previously defined activation domains.
To determine whether the activation of a second pre-mRNA target exhibited similar or different requirements compared with cTNT e. These results demonstrate different specificities of different CELF proteins to different alternative exons. To identify regions within ETR-3 that are required for the repression of exon inclusion, we coexpressed the ETR-3 deletion series with a human IR minigene.
CELF proteins regulate alternative splicing of several pre-mRNAs by binding specific sequences within the introns adjacent to the alternative exons 8 , 13 — 16 , In this study, we delineated the minimal regions required for the activity of all three regions. In addition, we tested whether the same or different domains are required for splicing activation and repression of different pre-mRNA targets. We note that deletions caused a loss of CELF4 function, yet substitution of the same residues demonstrated them not to be required for function Figure 2.
Results from deletion analyses should be interpreted with caution and substitutions are preferable to deletions for the delineation of functional domains. Since the regions required for splicing regulation are not required for RNA binding, they are most likely to function by binding other factors required for splicing activation or repression. The finding that distinct residues of CELF proteins separated by 20 amino acids are required for the activation of different alternative exons suggests several possibilities.
One is that the activation of different alternative exons requires interactions with separate factors.
In this case, the two domains required for cTNT and PTB activation would represent redundant protein—protein interaction sites. Consistent with this possibility, the two regions contain methionine and glutamine-rich motifs.
It is possible that the activation of PTB exon 11 requires more copies of a redundant interaction domain than cTNT exon 5. Further analysis is ongoing to identify the interacting factors required for activation. A Deletion and substitution analyses identified 20 residues between and that are required for the activation of cTNT exon 5 inclusion, 20 residues between and are required for the activation of PTB exon 11 inclusion, and 10 residues between and as well as 10 residues between and are required for full repression of NMDA R1 exon 5 inclusion.
CELF4 residue numbers are indicated. Conserved residues are indicated in bold font. The large deletion series revealed that residues — were required for splicing repression.
Finer deletion and substitution analysis revealed that 10 residues between and are mainly required for repressed splicing of NMDA R1 exon 5 by CELF4, with an additional requirement for residues — for full activity Figure 4F. These results suggest that the protein—protein interactions with CELF4 required for splicing repression are the same as those that mediate splicing activation.
For example, where the complex assembles relative to the regulated alternative exon could be determinative for repression or activation of splicing.
It is also possible that different proteins required for activation or repression interact with the same region of CELF4, altering the effect of the regulatory complex on recruitment or stabilization of the basal splicing machinery. Zebrafish Fox-1 ataxin-2 binding protein 1, A2BP1 has been demonstrated to positively regulate splicing of one pre-mRNA and negatively regulate another.
While only an N-terminal portion of Fox-1 is required for positive regulation, a C-terminal segment is required for positive and negative regulation These results suggest the need for different interacting proteins to mediate different effects.
In the case of ETR-3, we were not able to further define minimal activation domains for cTNT exon 5 splicing for either the N- or C-terminal regions of the divergent domain, since sequential deletions within the previously defined domain only gradually reduced splicing activity. Therefore, the activation domains of ETR-3 appear to be spread out over larger regions of the divergent domain and differ significantly from the relatively small regions within CELF4.
That these proteins retained the ability to regulate splicing was demonstrated previously on chicken cTNT These results suggest that ETR-3 requires multiple protein—protein interactions within different regions of the divergent domains and perhaps RRM3 to promote exon inclusion. Deletion analysis of chicken ETR-3 demonstrated that in contrast to results obtained for human ETR-3, deletion of the N-terminal quadrant of the divergent domain or deletion of the last third of RRM3 impaired its splicing activation of chicken cTNT Detailed functional comparisons of chicken and human ETR-3 are in progress.
Glutamine residues are most conserved among all six CELF proteins, and methionine, arginine, proline, leucine and alanine residues are also conserved. It remains to be determined whether these residues are specifically required for splicing activation or repression. Interestingly, the C-terminal region with the ETR-3 divergent domain that is sufficient for the activation of cTNT exon 5 does not contain obvious residue commonalities with this N-terminal region, suggesting that at least for cTNT, the different regions use different protein—protein interactions to mediate splicing activation These chimeras were tested for their ability to activate chicken cTNT in vivo.
It is possible that these fragments alter the structure of the protein in a manner that is incompatible with RNA binding.
Recently, Delaunay et al. Taken together, our results demonstrate that CELF proteins influence splicing of diverse pre-mRNAs using distinct regions of the protein. The activation and repression domains defined in this study will be used to identify proteins that interact with the CELF proteins and will be a foundation to understand the splicing mechanism of CELF protein activation and repression of splicing activity.
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I asked him then about the ambush at Vodena and his subsequent movements. He had spoken slowly, sometimes with a faint smile at the corners of his mouth, always with his watchful grey eyes on his visitors, reading and assessing them.
The Dragoon of Ansbach, George thought, must have been very much the same kind of man. Where other men would succumb to physical disaster, men like these two Schirmers would always endure and survive. Ricky turned quickly onto a side street. The Caddy moved with him, lurking behind the unbroken wall of cars parked at the curb.
It was only a matter of time before a stalker like Vinnie Gargano paid Ricky a visit. Try as he might to fly under the radar-Ricky never flashed a lot of cash, he lived modestly in a Cambridge apartment, dressed in jeans, drove a Ford Fairlane-word had got out that he was making a lot of dough. Ricky earned his money fair and square, with intelligence, creativity, skill, preparation, and hard work. The test may be administered by Spanish-speaking SLPs, school psychologists, special educators, and diagnosticians.
Now say an official were to put a one pound calibrated weight on the scale and it weighed two pounds. The scale is not measuring what it purports to measure—it is not valid. Therefore, even if the reliability appears to be sufficient as compared to the standards in the field, if it is not valid it is still not appropriate to use in assessment and diagnosis of language disorder.
Standardized tests often report high measures of reliability while choosing not to report or emphasize the lack of validity in order to present the test as an accurate measure of language.
However, as you can see, reliability does not equal accuracy. This means that despite the test being administered several times, the results are similar for the same individual. Children aged were used for this study, which does not include the entire age range of the CELF Salvia, Ysseldyke, and Bolt, , as cited in Betz, Eickhoff, and Sullivan, , recommend that minimum 10 standard for test reliability be.
According to the Examiners Manual, across ages and subtests, reliability coefficients ranged from. Test-retest reliability is insufficient. It should be noted that the inter-examiner reliability for index measures is often calculated using specially trained examiners. When used in the field, however, the average clinician will likely not have specific training in test administration for that specific test and thus the inter-examiner reliability may be lower in reality.
Inter-examiner reliability was calculated using 30 trained raters. Each subtest was rated independently by two raters and then compared. A third rater resolved any discrepancies. According to the Examiners Manual, agreement between scorers ranged from. All but one subtest Word Definitions met the standards in the field for reliability Salvia, Ysseldyke, and Bolt, , as cited in Betz, Eickhoff, and Sullivan, Inter-Item Consistency: Inter-item consistency assesses whether parts of an assessment are in fact measuring something similar to what the whole assessment claims to measure Paul, Inter-item consistency was calculated using the split half method.
In the split half method, the authors divided the targets into two groups and calculated the correlation between the test halves for each subtest. Across age ranges and subtests, coefficients ranged from. Interitem consistency was also calculated for students from four clinical groups: LD, intellectual disability, autism, and hearing impaired.
Across subtests, the split-half coefficient ranged from. Overall, the reliability, including the test-retest, and inter-examiner reliability, is considered insufficient. Specifically, across ages for the range of the test, none of the subtests received sufficient test-retest reliability as the coefficients were all below. Test-retest reliability was not calculated using the entire age range of the CELF-4, thus making it an insufficient measure.
Further, one subtest did not meet the standard for inter-examiner reliability, and 4 out of 12 subtests did not meet the standard in the field for inter-item consistency to be considered sufficient. For example, a child may be tested one day and receive a standard score of Say he was tested a second time and he was promised a reward for performing well; he may receive a score of If he were to be tested a third time, he may not be feeling well on that day, and receive a score of Current assessment guidelines in New York City require that scores be presented within CIs whose size is determined by the reliability of the test.
The wide range of scores necessary to achieve a high level of confidence, often covering two or more standard deviations, demonstrates how little information is gained by administration of a standardized test.
Without considering the CI, this child would be labeled LD inappropriately and given special education services unnecessarily. Thus, typically developing students learning English as a Second Language may be diagnosed as having a language disorder when, in reality, they are showing signs of typical second language acquisition. In this subtest, students are shown a picture and given a target word.
Then they are asked to use the word in a sentence. The first item in this subtest depicts children playing a video game with their father. It is important to consider the dialect issues of the test being administered in Standard American English SAE with speakers of other dialects. Although the content of the sentence consists of words in English, because of the unfamiliar structure and semantic meaning, it would be more difficult for a speaker of SAE to repeat this sentence as compared to a similar sentence in SAE.
Speakers of dialects other than SAE e. Such tests are inappropriate for speakers of other dialects as their syntactical structure may not correlate to that of the stimulus item. For example, on page , alternate responses to the Word Structure items are given for speakers of AAE. Although the alternate responses are intended to add scoring sensitivity 13 to speakers of dialects other than SAE, AAE is the only other dialect that is provided in the manual. Other dialects are not mentioned in the manual, and thus speakers of these dialects may be at a disadvantage.
It should also be noted that speakers of dialects fall along a continuum; they may use features of both their native dialect and SAE. Examiners are not sensitive to dialectal issues may expect a child to use only one dialect, which is not usually the case.
Further, in the scoring directions for the Formulated Sentences subtest, notes are provided on relevant items to give full credit for responses that are dialectal. When administering the CELF-4, it is important to note the alternate responses suggested in the manual when scoring tests of speakers of dialects other than SAE. However, despite recognition of dialect differences acceptable responses, the creators of the CELF- 4 fail to recognize the bias inherent in administering a test in SAE to a speaker who may not be familiar or proficient in SAE.
Children from families of higher SES tend to have larger vocabularies and score better on standardized tests since many items are actually vocabulary based. A child from a lower SES background may be falsely identified as having a language disorder on standardized language tests due to a smaller vocabulary than his higher SES peers.
The CELF-4 contains many items that are biased against children from low SES backgrounds because they require knowledge of lower frequency vocabulary items.
For example, on the Expressive Vocabulary subtest, a child from a lower SES may not have exposure to some of the lower frequency vocabulary words such as trophy, skeleton, telescope, and binoculars. Also, the Formulating Sentences and Word Classes 1 and 2 subtests require prior knowledge of the stimulus word to provide an appropriate response. For example, a child from the middle of the country may not have prior experience with the word island in the Expressive Vocabulary subtest; a child who has never attended school and interacted with school supplies would not be familiar with the objects in item 21 from the Word Classes I subtest eraser, glue, chalk, tape.
The CELF-4 contains various testing formats, many of which are dependent upon prior knowledge and experience.
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