Dysregulation and therapeutic targeting of RNA splicing in cancer

RF Stanley, O Abdel-Wahab - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
High-throughput sequencing and functional characterization of the cancer transcriptome
have uncovered cancer-specific dysregulation of RNA splicing across a variety of cancers …

Aberrant pre-mRNA processing in cancer

J Biswas, L Boussi, E Stein… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - rupress.org
Dysregulation of the flow of information from genomic DNA to RNA to protein occurs within
all cancer types. In this review, we described the current state of understanding of how RNA …

Targeting splicing factors for cancer therapy

A Bashari, Z Siegfried, R Karni - RNA, 2023 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Alternative splicing (AS) of mRNAs is an essential regulatory mechanism in eukaryotic gene
expression. AS misregulation, caused by either dysregulation or mutation of splicing factors …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic interactions drive early spliceosome assembly

S Martínez-Lumbreras, C Morguet, M Sattler - Current Opinion in Structural …, 2024 - Elsevier
Splicing is a critical processing step during pre-mRNA maturation in eukaryotes. The correct
selection of splice sites during the early steps of spliceosome assembly is highly important …

Therapeutic targeting of RNA splicing in cancer

EA Bonner, SC Lee - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
RNA splicing is a key regulatory step in the proper control of gene expression. It is a highly
dynamic process orchestrated by the spliceosome, a macro-molecular machinery that …

CDK11, a splicing-associated kinase regulating gene expression

M Hluchý, D Blazek - Trends in Cell Biology, 2024 - cell.com
The ability of a cell to properly express its genes depends on optimal transcription and
splicing. RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) transcribes protein-coding genes and produces pre …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic modulation of RNA splicing in malignant and non-malignant disease

E El Marabti, O Abdel-Wahab - Trends in molecular medicine, 2021 - cell.com
RNA splicing is the enzymatic process by which non-protein coding sequences are removed
from RNA to produce mature protein-coding mRNA. Splicing is thereby a major mediator of …

Biology of the mRNA splicing machinery and its dysregulation in cancer providing therapeutic opportunities

M Blijlevens, J Li, VW van Beusechem - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Dysregulation of messenger RNA (mRNA) processing—in particular mRNA splicing—is a
hallmark of cancer. Compared to normal cells, cancer cells frequently present aberrant …

A synthetic small molecule stalls pre-mRNA splicing by promoting an early-stage U2AF2-RNA complex

R Chatrikhi, CF Feeney, MJ Pulvino, G Alachouzos… - Cell chemical …, 2021 - cell.com
Dysregulated pre-mRNA splicing is an emerging Achilles heel of cancers and
myelodysplasias. To expand the currently limited portfolio of small-molecule drug leads, we …

Using the structural diversity of RNA: protein interfaces to selectively target RNA with small molecules in cells: methods and perspectives

A Li, A Bouhss, MJ Clément, C Bauvais… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, RNA has gained traction both as a therapeutic molecule and as a
therapeutic target in several human pathologies. In this review, we consider the approach of …