Alternative splicing: a pivotal step between eukaryotic transcription and translation

AR Kornblihtt, IE Schor, M Alló, G Dujardin… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2013 - nature.com
Alternative splicing was discovered simultaneously with splicing over three decades ago.
Since then, an enormous body of evidence has demonstrated the prevalence of alternative …

New insights into functional roles of the polypyrimidine tract-binding protein

MG Romanelli, E Diani, PMJ Lievens - International journal of molecular …, 2013 - mdpi.com
Polypyrimidine Tract Binding Protein (PTB) is an intensely studied RNA binding protein
involved in several post-transcriptional regulatory events of gene expression. Initially …

Nature of protein dynamics and thermodynamics

Q Zhao - Reviews in Theoretical Science, 2013 - ingentaconnect.com
The general natures of protein dynamics and thermodynamics are analyzed on the basis of
irreversible theory for protein folding and protein thermodynamic structure theory. Main …

RBM4 down-regulates PTB and antagonizes its activity in muscle cell–specific alternative splicing

JC Lin, WY Tarn - Journal of Cell Biology, 2011 - rupress.org
Alternative splicing contributes largely to cell differentiation and functional specification. We
previously reported that the RNA-binding protein RBM4 antagonizes the activity of splicing …

Chromosome-centric approach to overcoming bottlenecks in the Human Proteome Project

A Archakov, V Zgoda, A Kopylov… - Expert review of …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The international Human Proteome Project (HPP), a logical continuation of the Human
Genome Project, was launched on 23 September 2010 in Sydney, Australia. In accordance …

Tailoring of membrane proteins by alternative splicing of pre-mRNA

KF Mittendorf, CL Deatherage, MD Ohi… - Biochemistry, 2012 - ACS Publications
Alternative splicing (AS) of RNA is a key mechanism for diversification of the eukaryotic
proteome. In this process, different mRNA transcripts can be produced through altered …

High transcriptional complexity of the retinitis pigmentosa CERKL gene in human and mouse

A Garanto, M Riera, E Pomares… - … & visual science, 2011 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Purpose.: To shed light on the pathogenicity of the mutations in the retinitis pigmentosa gene
CERKL, the authors aimed to characterize its transcriptional repertoire and focused on the …

Thirty years of multiple sequence codes

EN Trifonov - Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
An overview is presented on the status of studies on multiple codes in genetic sequences.
Indirectly, the existence of multiple codes is recognized in the form of several rediscoveries …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of splicing enhancer activities by RNA secondary structures

W Liu, Y Zhou, Z Hu, T Sun, A Denise, XD Fu, Y Zhang - FEBS letters, 2010 - Elsevier
In this report, we studied the effect of RNA structures on the activity of exonic splicing
enhancers on the SMN1 minigene model by engineering known ESEs into different …

Multiple levels of meaning in DNA sequences, and one more

EN Trifonov, Z Volkovich… - Annals of the New York …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
If we define a genetic code as a widespread DNA sequence pattern that carries a message
with an impact on biology, then there are multiple genetic codes. Sequences involved in …