[HTML][HTML] The function of introns

M Chorev, L Carmel - Frontiers in genetics, 2012 - frontiersin.org
The intron–exon architecture of many eukaryotic genes raises the intriguing question of
whether this unique organization serves any function, or is it simply a result of the spread of …

Nonsense‐mediated mRNA decay: novel mechanistic insights and biological impact

ED Karousis, S Nasif… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Nonsense‐mediated mRNA decay (NMD) was originally coined to define a quality control
mechanism that targets mRNAs with truncated open reading frames due to the presence of a …

[PDF][PDF] The functional impact of alternative splicing in cancer

H Climente-González, E Porta-Pardo, A Godzik… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Alternative splicing changes are frequently observed in cancer and are starting to be
recognized as important signatures for tumor progression and therapy. However, their …

Alternative splicing and nonsense-mediated decay modulate expression of important regulatory genes in Arabidopsis

M Kalyna, CG Simpson, NH Syed… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Alternative splicing (AS) coupled to nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) is a post-
transcriptional mechanism for regulating gene expression. We have used a high-resolution …

[HTML][HTML] The cellular EJC interactome reveals higher-order mRNP structure and an EJC-SR protein nexus

G Singh, A Kucukural, C Cenik, JD Leszyk, SA Shaffer… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
In addition to sculpting eukaryotic transcripts by removing introns, pre-mRNA splicing greatly
impacts protein composition of the emerging mRNP. The exon junction complex (EJC) …

Modelling and simulating generic RNA-Seq experiments with the flux simulator

T Griebel, B Zacher, P Ribeca, E Raineri… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
High-throughput sequencing of cDNA libraries constructed from cellular RNA complements
(RNA-Seq) naturally provides a digital quantitative measurement for every expressed RNA …

Interplay between gene expression noise and regulatory network architecture

G Chalancon, CNJ Ravarani, S Balaji… - Trends in genetics, 2012 - cell.com
Complex regulatory networks orchestrate most cellular processes in biological systems.
Genes in such networks are subject to expression noise, resulting in isogenic cell …

Global analyses of UPF1 binding and function reveal expanded scope of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay

JA Hurt, AD Robertson, CB Burge - Genome research, 2013 - genome.cshlp.org
UPF1 is a DNA/RNA helicase with essential roles in nonsense-mediated mRNA decay
(NMD) and embryonic development. How UPF1 regulates target abundance and the …

Transcriptome-wide identification of NMD-targeted human mRNAs reveals extensive redundancy between SMG6-and SMG7-mediated degradation pathways

M Colombo, ED Karousis, J Bourquin, R Bruggmann… - Rna, 2017 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Besides degrading aberrant mRNAs that harbor a premature translation termination codon
(PTC), nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) also targets many seemingly “normal” …

Autoregulation of the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway in human cells

H Yepiskoposyan, F Aeschimann, D Nilsson… - Rna, 2011 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is traditionally portrayed as a quality-control
mechanism that degrades mRNAs with truncated open reading frames (ORFs). However, it …