The physiology of alternative splicing

LE Marasco, AR Kornblihtt - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Alternative splicing is a substantial contributor to the high complexity of transcriptomes of
multicellular eukaryotes. In this Review, we discuss the accumulated evidence that most of …

Regulation of pre-mRNA splicing: roles in physiology and disease, and therapeutic prospects

ME Rogalska, C Vivori, J Valcárcel - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The removal of introns from mRNA precursors and its regulation by alternative splicing are
key for eukaryotic gene expression and cellular function, as evidenced by the numerous …

Phase separation as a missing mechanism for interpretation of disease mutations

B Tsang, I Pritišanac, SW Scherer, AM Moses… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
It is unclear how disease mutations impact intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs),
which lack a stable folded structure. These mutations, while prevalent in disease, are …

The nexus between RNA-binding proteins and their effectors

S He, E Valkov, S Cheloufi, J Murn - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) regulate essentially every event in the lifetime of an RNA
molecule, from its production to its destruction. Whereas much has been learned about RNA …

Nanopore sequencing of brain-derived full-length circRNAs reveals circRNA-specific exon usage, intron retention and microexons

K Rahimi, MT Venø, DM Dupont, J Kjems - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Circular RNA (circRNA) is a class of covalently joined non-coding RNAs with functional roles
in a wide variety of cellular processes. Their composition shows extensive overlap with …

[HTML][HTML] The science of puromycin: From studies of ribosome function to applications in biotechnology

R Aviner - Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
Puromycin is a naturally occurring aminonucleoside antibiotic that inhibits protein synthesis
by ribosome-catalyzed incorporation into the C-terminus of elongating nascent chains …

IRIS: Discovery of cancer immunotherapy targets arising from pre-mRNA alternative splicing

Y Pan, JW Phillips, BD Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Alternative splicing (AS) is prevalent in cancer, generating an extensive but largely
unexplored repertoire of novel immunotherapy targets. We describe I soform peptides from …

Noteworthy perspectives on microglia in neuropsychiatric disorders

H Zhu, A Guan, J Liu, L Peng, Z Zhang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Microglia are so versatile that they not only provide immune surveillance for central nervous
system, but participate in neural circuitry development, brain blood vessels formation, blood …

RNA-binding proteins balance brain function in health and disease

R Schieweck, J Ninkovic… - Physiological reviews, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Posttranscriptional gene expression including splicing, RNA transport, translation, and RNA
decay provides an important regulatory layer in many if not all molecular pathways …

[图书][B] RNA, the epicenter of genetic information

J Mattick, P Amaral - 2023 - library.oapen.org
The origin story and emergence of molecular biology is muddled. The early triumphs in
bacterial genetics and the complexity of animal and plant genomes complicate an intricate …