Alternative splicing as a source of phenotypic diversity

CJ Wright, CWJ Smith, CD Jiggins - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
A major goal of evolutionary genetics is to understand the genetic processes that give rise to
phenotypic diversity in multicellular organisms. Alternative splicing generates multiple …

Alternative mRNA splicing in cancer immunotherapy

L Frankiw, D Baltimore, G Li - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2019 - nature.com
Immunotherapies are yielding effective treatments for several previously untreatable
cancers. Still, the identification of suitable antigens specific to the tumour that can be targets …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular topography of an entire nervous system

SR Taylor, G Santpere, A Weinreb, A Barrett, MB Reilly… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
We have produced gene expression profiles of all 302 neurons of the C. elegans nervous
system that match the single-cell resolution of its anatomy and wiring diagram. Our results …

[HTML][HTML] High-throughput and high-accuracy single-cell RNA isoform analysis using PacBio circular consensus sequencing

ZX Shi, ZC Chen, JY Zhong, KH Hu, YF Zheng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Although long-read single-cell RNA isoform sequencing (scISO-Seq) can reveal alternative
RNA splicing in individual cells, it suffers from a low read throughput. Here, we introduce HIT …

Identification of astrocyte regulators by nucleic acid cytometry

IC Clark, MA Wheeler, HG Lee, Z Li, LM Sanmarco… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system.
Astrocytes are heterogeneous glial cells that are resident in the central nervous system and …

[HTML][HTML] Broad transcriptomic dysregulation occurs across the cerebral cortex in ASD

MJ Gandal, JR Haney, B Wamsley, CX Yap, S Parhami… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Neuropsychiatric disorders classically lack defining brain pathologies, but recent work has
demonstrated dysregulation at the molecular level, characterized by transcriptomic and …

A discriminative learning approach to differential expression analysis for single-cell RNA-seq

V Ntranos, L Yi, P Melsted, L Pachter - Nature methods, 2019 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA-seq makes it possible to characterize the transcriptomes of cell types across
different conditions and to identify their transcriptional signatures via differential analysis …

[PDF][PDF] Single-cell RNA-seq of the pancreatic islets––a promise not yet fulfilled?

YJ Wang, KH Kaestner - Cell metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
In the past 3 years, we have seen a flurry of publications on single-cell RNA sequencing
(RNA-seq) analyses of pancreatic islets from mouse and human. This technology holds the …

[HTML][HTML] RNA dysregulation: an expanding source of cancer immunotherapy targets

Y Pan, KE Kadash-Edmondson, R Wang… - Trends in …, 2021 - cell.com
Cancer transcriptomes frequently exhibit RNA dysregulation. As the resulting aberrant
transcripts may be translated into cancer-specific proteins, there is growing interest in …

[HTML][HTML] Isoform cell-type specificity in the mouse primary motor cortex

AS Booeshaghi, Z Yao, C van Velthoven, K Smith… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Full-length SMART-seq single-cell RNA sequencing can be used to measure gene
expression at isoform resolution, making possible the identification of specific isoform …