RNA splicing by the spliceosome

ME Wilkinson, C Charenton… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The spliceosome removes introns from messenger RNA precursors (pre-mRNA). Decades
of biochemistry and genetics combined with recent structural studies of the spliceosome …

Mechanistic insights into precursor messenger RNA splicing by the spliceosome

Y Shi - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
Precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) splicing is an essential step in the flow of
information from DNA to protein in all eukaryotes. Research over the past four decades has …

Thoughts on how to think (and talk) about RNA structure

Q Vicens, JS Kieft - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Recent events have pushed RNA research into the spotlight. Continued discoveries of RNA
with unexpected diverse functions in healthy and diseased cells, such as the role of RNA as …

Mechanisms and regulation of alternative pre-mRNA splicing

Y Lee, DC Rio - Annual review of biochemistry, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) splicing is a critical step in the posttranscriptional
regulation of gene expression, providing significant expansion of the functional proteome of …

Structure of a pre-catalytic spliceosome

C Plaschka, PC Lin, K Nagai - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Intron removal requires assembly of the spliceosome on precursor mRNA (pre-mRNA) and
extensive remodelling to form the spliceosome's catalytic centre. Here we report the cryo …

The spliceosome: the ultimate RNA chaperone and sculptor

P Papasaikas, J Valcárcel - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2016 - cell.com
The spliceosome, one of the most complex machineries of eukaryotic cells, removes intronic
sequences from primary transcripts to generate functional messenger and long noncoding …

Cryo-EM structure of a human spliceosome activated for step 2 of splicing

K Bertram, DE Agafonov, WT Liu, O Dybkov, CL Will… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Spliceosome rearrangements facilitated by RNA helicase PRP16 before catalytic step two of
splicing are poorly understood. Here we report a 3D cryo-electron microscopy structure of …

Structural insights into nuclear pre-mRNA splicing in higher eukaryotes

B Kastner, CL Will, H Stark… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2019 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The spliceosome is a highly complex, dynamic ribonucleoprotein molecular machine that
undergoes numerous structural and compositional rearrangements that lead to the formation …

[PDF][PDF] Structure and conformational dynamics of the human spliceosomal Bact complex

D Haselbach, I Komarov, DE Agafonov, K Hartmuth… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
The spliceosome is a highly dynamic macromolecular complex that precisely excises introns
from pre-mRNA. Here we report the cryo-EM 3D structure of the human B act spliceosome at …

Cryo-EM structure of the spliceosome immediately after branching

WP Galej, ME Wilkinson, SM Fica, C Oubridge… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Precursor mRNA (pre-mRNA) splicing proceeds by two consecutive transesterification
reactions via a lariat–intron intermediate. Here we present the 3.8 Å cryo-electron …