What is going on inside of phytochrome B photobodies?

BC Willige, CY Yoo, JP Saldierna Guzmán - The Plant Cell, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Plants exhibit an enormous phenotypic plasticity to adjust to changing environmental
conditions. For this purpose, they have evolved mechanisms to detect and measure biotic …

[HTML][HTML] Counteracting chromatin effects of a splicing-correcting antisense oligonucleotide improves its therapeutic efficacy in spinal muscular atrophy

LE Marasco, G Dujardin, R Sousa-Luís, YH Liu… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a motor-neuron disease caused by mutations of the SMN1
gene. The human paralog SMN2, whose exon 7 (E7) is predominantly skipped, cannot …

[HTML][HTML] RBM22, a key player of pre-mRNA splicing and gene expression regulation, is altered in cancer

B Soubise, Y Jiang, N Douet-Guilbert, MB Troadec - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary RBM22 is a gene that encodes an essential RNA-Binding Protein involved
in pre-mRNA splicing and transcription, with a DNA-binding function. This dual RNA/DNA …

[HTML][HTML] METTL3 regulates breast cancer-associated alternative splicing switches

C Achour, DP Bhattarai, P Groza, ÁC Román, F Aguilo - Oncogene, 2023 - nature.com
Alternative splicing (AS) enables differential inclusion of exons from a given transcript,
thereby contributing to the transcriptome and proteome diversity. Aberrant AS patterns play …

[HTML][HTML] Rescue of a familial dysautonomia mouse model by AAV9-Exon-specific U1 snRNA

G Romano, F Riccardi, E Bussani, S Vodret… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
Familial dysautonomia (FD) is a currently untreatable, neurodegenerative disease caused
by a splicing mutation (c. 2204+ 6T> C) that causes skipping of exon 20 of the elongator …

MYC-driven U2SURP regulates alternative splicing of SAT1 to promote triple-negative breast cancer progression

L Deng, L Liao, YL Zhang, SY Hu, SY Yang, XY Ma… - Cancer Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), although highly lethal, lacks validated therapeutic
targets. Here, we report that U2 snRNP-associated SURP motif-containing protein …

[HTML][HTML] Tumour mutations in long noncoding RNAs enhance cell fitness

R Esposito, A Lanzós, T Uroda… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are linked to cancer via pathogenic changes in their
expression levels. Yet, it remains unclear whether lncRNAs can also impact tumour cell …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted splicing therapy: new strategies for colorectal cancer

Y Zheng, G Zhong, C He, M Li - Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
RNA splicing is the process of forming mature mRNA, which is an essential phase
necessary for gene expression and controls many aspects of cell proliferation, survival, and …

AKT1 phosphorylates RBM17 to promote Sox2 transcription by modulating alternative splicing of FOXM1 to enhance cancer stem cell properties in colorectal cancer …

Y Fu, C Bai, S Wang, D Chen, P Zhang… - The FASEB …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the leading causes of cancer‐related death worldwide.
The existence of cancer stem cells (CSC) causes tumor relapses, metastasis, and resistance …

RNA-seq analysis reveals transcriptome reprogramming and alternative splicing during early response to salt stress in tomato root

J Gan, Y Qiu, Y Tao, L Zhang, TW Okita… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Salt stress is one of the dominant abiotic stress conditions that cause severe damage to
plant growth and, in turn, limiting crop productivity. It is therefore crucial to understand the …