The physiology of alternative splicing

LE Marasco, AR Kornblihtt - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Alternative splicing is a substantial contributor to the high complexity of transcriptomes of
multicellular eukaryotes. In this Review, we discuss the accumulated evidence that most of …

Alternative splicing: a new cause and potential therapeutic target in autoimmune disease

P Ren, L Lu, S Cai, J Chen, W Lin, F Han - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Alternative splicing (AS) is a complex coordinated transcriptional regulatory mechanism. It
affects nearly 95% of all protein-coding genes and occurs in nearly all human organs …

Nanopore sequencing reveals endogenous NMD-targeted isoforms in human cells

ED Karousis, F Gypas, M Zavolan, O Mühlemann - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a eukaryotic, translation-
dependent degradation pathway that targets mRNAs with premature termination codons and …

Bilayer forming phospholipids as targets for cancer therapy

C Stoica, AK Ferreira, K Hannan, M Bakovic - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Phospholipids represent a crucial component for the structure of cell membranes.
Phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine are two phospholipids that comprise …

IL-6/STAT3 signaling in tumor cells restricts the expression of frameshift-derived neoantigens by SMG1 induction

D Meraviglia-Crivelli, H Villanueva, A Zheleva… - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Background The quality and quantity of tumor neoantigens derived from tumor mutations
determines the fate of the immune response in cancer. Frameshift mutations elicit better …

Alternative splicing, an Overlooked Defense Frontier of Plants with respect to bacterial infection

JQ Xie, X Zhou, ZC Jia, CF Su, Y Zhang… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Disease represents a major problem in sustainable agricultural development. Plants interact
closely with various microorganisms during their development and in response to the …

Tissue-specific regulation of gene expression via unproductive splicing

A Mironov, M Petrova, S Margasyuk… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Eukaryotic gene expression is regulated post-transcriptionally by a mechanism called
unproductive splicing, in which mRNA is triggered to degrade by the nonsense-mediated …

Exon-junction complex association with stalled ribosomes and slow translation-independent disassembly

O Bensaude, I Barbosa, L Morillo, R Dikstein… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Exon junction complexes are deposited at exon-exon junctions during splicing. They are
primarily known to activate non-sense mediated degradation of transcripts harbouring …

[HTML][HTML] Matrix stiffness regulates tumor cell intravasation through expression and ESRP1-mediated alternative splicing of MENA

W Wang, PV Taufalele, M Millet, K Homsy, K Smart… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
During intravasation, cancer cells cross the endothelial barrier and enter the circulation.
Extracellular matrix stiffening has been correlated with tumor metastatic potential; however …

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay uses complementary mechanisms to suppress mRNA and protein accumulation

DB Udy, RK Bradley - Life science alliance, 2022 - life-science-alliance.org
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is an essential, highly conserved quality control
pathway that detects and degrades mRNAs containing premature termination codons …