Unique transcriptomes of sensory and non-sensory neurons: insights from Splicing Regulatory States

L Ciampi, L Serrano, M Irimia - Molecular Systems Biology, 2024 - embopress.org
Alternative Splicing (AS) programs serve as instructive signals of cell type specificity,
particularly within the brain, which comprises dozens of molecularly and functionally distinct …

A MEC-2/stomatin condensate liquid-to-solid phase transition controls neuronal mechanotransduction during touch sensing

N Sanfeliu-Cerdán, F Català-Castro, B Mateos… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
A growing body of work suggests that the material properties of biomolecular condensates
ensuing from liquid–liquid phase separation change with time. How this aging process is …

TDP-1 and FUST-1 co-inhibit exon inclusion and control fertility together with transcriptional regulation

M Taylor, O Marx, A Norris - Nucleic Acids Research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Gene expression is a multistep process and crosstalk among regulatory layers plays an
important role in coordinating gene expression. To identify functionally relevant gene …

A primary microcephaly-associated sas-6 mutation perturbs centrosome duplication, dendrite morphogenesis, and ciliogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans

M Bergwell, A Smith, E Smith, C Dierlam, R Duran… - Genetics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The human SASS6 (I62T) missense mutation has been linked with the incidence of
primary microcephaly in a Pakistani family, although the mechanisms by which this mutation …

VISTA: visualizing the spatial transcriptome of the C.elegans nervous system

D Liska, Z Wolfe, A Norris - Bioinformatics Advances, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Profiling the transcriptomes of single cells without sacrificing spatial information is a major
goal of the field of spatial transcriptomics, but current technologies require tradeoffs between …

A conserved role for stomatin domain genes in olfactory behavior

X Liang, M Taylor, R Napier-Jameson… - Eneuro, 2023 - eneuro.org
The highly-conserved stomatin domain has been identified in genes throughout all classes
of life. In animals, different stomatin domain-encoding genes have been implicated in the …

Alternative splicing across the C. elegans nervous system

A Weinreb, E Varol, A Barrett, RM McWhirter, SR Taylor… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Alternative splicing is a key mechanism that shapes neuronal transcriptomes, helping to
define neuronal identity and modulate function. Here, we present an atlas of alternative …

Deep Transcriptomics Reveals Cell-Specific Isoforms of Pan-Neuronal Genes

Z Wolfe, D Liska, AD Norris - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Profiling gene expression in single neurons using single-cell RNA-Seq is a powerful method
for understanding the molecular diversity of the nervous system. Profiling alternative splicing …

Hand Dissection of Caenorhabditis elegans Intestines

JL Hill, A Moore, RTP Williams… - JoVE (Journal of Visualized …, 2022 - jove.com
Comprised of only 20 cells, the Caenorhabditis elegans intestine is the nexus of many life-
supporting functions, including digestion, metabolism, aging, immunity, and environmental …

A primary microcephaly-associated sas-6 mutation perturbs centrosome duplication and ciliogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans

M Bergwell, A Smith, E Smith, R Duran, E Haastrup… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
A missense mutation within the human SASS6 gene has been linked with the incidence of
primary microcephaly in a Pakistani family. However, the mechanism by which this mutation …