Splicing and transcription touch base: co-transcriptional spliceosome assembly and function

L Herzel, DSM Ottoz, T Alpert… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
Several macromolecular machines collaborate to produce eukaryotic messenger RNA. RNA
polymerase II (Pol II) translocates along genes that are up to millions of base pairs in length …

Lessons from non-canonical splicing

CR Sibley, L Blazquez, J Ule - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Recent improvements in experimental and computational techniques that are used to study
the transcriptome have enabled an unprecedented view of RNA processing, revealing many …

Using the ACMG/AMP framework to capture evidence related to predicted and observed impact on splicing: Recommendations from the ClinGen SVI Splicing …

LC Walker, M de la Hoya, GAR Wiggins, A Lindy… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
Summary The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG)/Association for
Molecular Pathology (AMP) framework for classifying variants uses six evidence categories …

Pseudouridine synthases modify human pre-mRNA co-transcriptionally and affect pre-mRNA processing

NM Martinez, A Su, MC Burns, JK Nussbacher… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Pseudouridine is a modified nucleotide that is prevalent in human mRNAs and is
dynamically regulated. Here, we investigate when in their life cycle mRNAs become …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic basis for RNA alterations in cancer

PCAWG Transcriptome Core Group Calabrese Claudia … - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Transcript alterations often result from somatic changes in cancer genomes. Various forms of
RNA alterations have been described in cancer, including overexpression, altered splicing …

H3B-8800, an orally available small-molecule splicing modulator, induces lethality in spliceosome-mutant cancers

M Seiler, A Yoshimi, R Darman, B Chan, G Keaney… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Genomic analyses of cancer have identified recurrent point mutations in the RNA splicing
factor–encoding genes SF3B1, U2AF1, and SRSF2 that confer an alteration of function …

Cancer-associated SF3B1 hotspot mutations induce cryptic 3′ splice site selection through use of a different branch point

RB Darman, M Seiler, AA Agrawal, KH Lim, S Peng… - Cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
Recurrent mutations in the spliceosome are observed in several human cancers, but their
functional and therapeutic significance remains elusive. SF3B1, the most frequently mutated …

Cancer-associated SF3B1 mutations affect alternative splicing by promoting alternative branchpoint usage

S Alsafadi, A Houy, A Battistella, T Popova… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Hotspot mutations in the spliceosome gene SF3B1 are reported in∼ 20% of uveal
melanomas. SF3B1 is involved in 3′-splice site (3′ ss) recognition during RNA splicing; …

Principles of RNA processing from analysis of enhanced CLIP maps for 150 RNA binding proteins

EL Van Nostrand, GA Pratt, BA Yee, EC Wheeler… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Background A critical step in uncovering rules of RNA processing is to study the in vivo
regulatory networks of RNA binding proteins (RBPs). Crosslinking and immunoprecipitation …

RNA splicing and disease: animal models to therapies

M Montes, BL Sanford, DF Comiskey, DS Chandler - Trends in Genetics, 2019 - cell.com
Alternative splicing of pre-mRNA increases genetic diversity, and recent studies estimate
that most human multiexon genes are alternatively spliced. If this process is not highly …