RNA splicing: regulation and dysregulation in the heart

MMG van den Hoogenhof, YM Pinto… - Circulation …, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
RNA splicing represents a post-transcriptional mechanism to generate multiple functional
RNAs or proteins from a single transcript. The evolution of RNA splicing is a prime example …

Alternative splicing in cardiomyopathy

A Beqqali - Biophysical reviews, 2018 - Springer
Alternative splicing is an important mechanism used by the cell to generate greater
transcriptomic and proteomic diversity from the genome. In the heart, alternative splicing is …

Cardiac splicing as a diagnostic and therapeutic target

M Gotthardt, V Badillo-Lisakowski, VN Parikh… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite advances in therapeutics for heart failure and arrhythmias, a substantial proportion
of patients with cardiomyopathy do not respond to interventions, indicating a need to identify …

[HTML][HTML] Splicing factors in the heart: Uncovering shared and unique targets

P Montañés-Agudo, YM Pinto, EE Creemers - Journal of molecular and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Alternative splicing generates specialized protein isoforms that allow the heart to adapt
during development and disease. The recent discovery that mutations in the splicing factor …

Alternative splicing in cardiovascular disease—a survey of recent findings

E Hasimbegovic, V Schweiger, N Kastner… - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Alternative splicing, a driver of posttranscriptional variance, differs from canonical splicing by
arranging the introns and exons of an immature pre-mRNA transcript in a multitude of …

The alternative heart: impact of alternative splicing in heart disease

E Lara-Pezzi, J Gómez-Salinero, A Gatto… - Journal of …, 2013 - Springer
Alternative splicing is the main driver of protein diversity and allows the production of
different proteins from each gene in the genome. Changes in exon exclusion, intron …

Heart failure–associated changes in RNA splicing of sarcomere genes

SW Kong, YW Hu, JWK Ho, S Ikeda… - Circulation …, 2010 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Alternative mRNA splicing is an important mechanism for regulation of gene
expression. Altered mRNA splicing occurs in association with several types of cancer, and a …

Pre-mRNA mis-splicing of sarcomeric genes in heart failure

C Zhu, Z Chen, W Guo - Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular …, 2017 - Elsevier
Pre-mRNA splicing is an important biological process that allows production of multiple
proteins from a single gene in the genome, and mainly contributes to protein diversity in …

[HTML][HTML] scaRNAs regulate splicing and vertebrate heart development

P Patil, N Kibiryeva, T Uechi, J Marshall… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2015 - Elsevier
Alternative splicing (AS) plays an important role in regulating mammalian heart
development, but a link between misregulated splicing and congenital heart defects (CHDs) …

Insights into alternative splicing of sarcomeric genes in the heart

CJ Weeland, MM van den Hoogenhof, A Beqqali… - Journal of molecular and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Driven by rapidly evolving technologies in next-generation sequencing, alternative splicing
has emerged as a crucial layer in gene expression, greatly expanding protein diversity and …