Protein arginine methylation: from enigmatic functions to therapeutic targeting

Q Wu, M Schapira, CH Arrowsmith… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) are emerging as attractive therapeutic targets.
PRMTs regulate transcription, splicing, RNA biology, the DNA damage response and cell …

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 …

RNA velocity unraveled

G Gorin, M Fang, T Chari, L Pachter - PLOS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
We perform a thorough analysis of RNA velocity methods, with a view towards
understanding the suitability of the various assumptions underlying popular …

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 …

Intron retention as a component of regulated gene expression programs

AG Jacob, CWJ Smith - Human genetics, 2017 - Springer
Intron retention has long been an exemplar of regulated splicing with case studies of
individual events serving as models that provided key mechanistic insights into the process …

Noncoding translation mitigation

JS Kesner, Z Chen, P Shi, AO Aparicio, MR Murphy… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Translation is pervasive outside of canonical coding regions, occurring in long noncoding
RNAs, canonical untranslated regions and introns,,–, especially in ageing …

Alternative splicing and protein diversity: plants versus animals

S Chaudhary, W Khokhar, I Jabre, ASN Reddy… - Frontiers in plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Plants, unlike animals, exhibit a very high degree of plasticity in their growth and
development and employ diverse strategies to cope with the variations during diurnal cycles …

The changing paradigm of intron retention: regulation, ramifications and recipes

G Monteuuis, JJL Wong, CG Bailey… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Intron retention (IR) is a form of alternative splicing that has long been neglected in
mammalian systems although it has been studied for decades in non-mammalian species …

[HTML][HTML] Alternative splicing: Human disease and quantitative analysis from high-throughput sequencing

W Jiang, L Chen - Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Alternative splicing contributes to the majority of protein diversity in higher eukaryotes by
allowing one gene to generate multiple distinct protein isoforms. It adds another regulation …

Dissecting the causal mechanism of X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism by integrating genome and transcriptome assembly

T Aneichyk, WT Hendriks, R Yadav, D Shin, D Gao… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Summary X-linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism (XDP) is a Mendelian neurodegenerative
disease that is endemic to the Philippines and is associated with a founder haplotype. We …