Fig. 8: Working model.

Graphic illustration showing the working model of CPSF-HNRNPA3 cooperation in epidermal progenitor maintenance. MYC functions upstream to sustain CPSF expression in undifferentiated keratinocytes. In the first intron of GRHL3, CPSF and HNRNPA3 bind to nascent RNA to cooperatively suppress splicing and promote intronic polyadenylation, which suppresses full-length GRHL3 mRNA expression and inhibit premature differentiation. UD undifferentiated keratinocytes, DF differentiated keratinocytes.