Function of alternative splicing

O Kelemen, P Convertini, Z Zhang, Y Wen, M Shen… - Gene, 2013 - Elsevier
Almost all polymerase II transcripts undergo alternative pre-mRNA splicing. Here, we review
the functions of alternative splicing events that have been experimentally determined. The …

RNA processing and its regulation: global insights into biological networks

DD Licatalosi, RB Darnell - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2010 - nature.com
In recent years views of eukaryotic gene expression have been transformed by the finding
that enormous diversity can be generated at the RNA level. Advances in technologies for …

Deciphering the splicing code

Y Barash, JA Calarco, W Gao, Q Pan, X Wang, O Shai… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Alternative splicing has a crucial role in the generation of biological complexity, and its
misregulation is often involved in human disease. Here we describe the assembly of a …

A postnatal switch of CELF and MBNL proteins reprograms alternative splicing in the developing heart

A Kalsotra, X Xiao, AJ Ward… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
From a large-scale screen using splicing microarrays and RT-PCR, we identified 63
alternative splicing (AS) events that are coordinated in 3 distinct temporal patterns during …

Cancer-associated regulation of alternative splicing

JP Venables, R Klinck, CS Koh, J Gervais-Bird… - Nature structural & …, 2009 - nature.com
Alternative splicing of pre-mRNA increases the diversity of protein functions. Here we show
that about half of all active alternative splicing events in ovarian and breast tissues are …

Expression of 24,426 human alternative splicing events and predicted cis regulation in 48 tissues and cell lines

JC Castle, C Zhang, JK Shah, AV Kulkarni, A Kalsotra… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
Alternative pre–messenger RNA splicing influences development, physiology and disease,
but its regulation in humans is not well understood, partially because of the limited scale at …

Neuronal Elav-like (Hu) proteins regulate RNA splicing and abundance to control glutamate levels and neuronal excitability

G Ince-Dunn, HJ Okano, KB Jensen, WY Park, R Zhong… - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
The paraneoplastic neurologic disorders target several families of neuron-specific RNA
binding proteins (RNABPs), revealing that there are unique aspects of gene expression …

Defining the regulatory network of the tissue-specific splicing factors Fox-1 and Fox-2

C Zhang, Z Zhang, J Castle, S Sun… - Genes & …, 2008 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The precise regulation of many alternative splicing (AS) events by specific splicing factors is
essential to determine tissue types and developmental stages. However, the molecular …

Developmental regulation of RNA processing by Rbfox proteins

JG Conboy - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The Rbfox genes encode an ancient family of sequence‐specific RNA binding proteins
(RBPs) that are critical developmental regulators in multiple tissues including skeletal …

Quaking and PTB control overlapping splicing regulatory networks during muscle cell differentiation

MP Hall, RJ Nagel, WS Fagg, L Shiue, MS Cline… - Rna, 2013 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Alternative splicing contributes to muscle development, but a complete set of muscle-
splicing factors and their combinatorial interactions are unknown. Previous work identified …