Function of alternative splicing

S Stamm, S Ben-Ari, I Rafalska, Y Tang, Z Zhang… - Gene, 2005 - Elsevier
Alternative splicing is one of the most important mechanisms to generate a large number of
mRNA and protein isoforms from the surprisingly low number of human genes. Unlike …

[HTML][HTML] Alternative splicing: new insights from global analyses

BJ Blencowe - Cell, 2006 - cell.com
Recent analyses of sequence and microarray data have suggested that alternative splicing
plays a major role in the generation of proteomic and functional diversity in metazoan …

Mechanisms of alternative splicing regulation: insights from molecular and genomics approaches

M Chen, JL Manley - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2009 - nature.com
Alternative splicing of mRNA precursors provides an important means of genetic control and
is a crucial step in the expression of most genes. Alternative splicing markedly affects human …

Promoter usage and alternative splicing

AR Kornblihtt - Current opinion in cell biology, 2005 - Elsevier
Recent findings justify a renewed interest in alternative splicing (AS): the process is more a
rule than an exception as it affects the expression of 60% of human genes; it explains how a …

Alternative splicing: global insights

M Hallegger, M Llorian, CWJ Smith - The FEBS journal, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Following the original reports of pre‐mRNA splicing in 1977, it was quickly realized that
splicing together of different combinations of splice sites–alternative splicing–allows …

Functional roles of alternative splicing factors in human disease

B Cieply, RP Carstens - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Alternative splicing (AS) is an important mechanism used to generate greater transcriptomic
and proteomic diversity from a finite genome. Nearly all human gene transcripts are …

Alternative splicing resulting in nonsense-mediated mRNA decay: what is the meaning of nonsense?

NJ McGlincy, CWJ Smith - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2008 - cell.com
Alternative splicing (AS) strongly affects gene expression by generating protein isoform
diversity. However, up to one-third of human AS events create a premature termination …

Alternative splicing: multiple control mechanisms and involvement in human disease

JF Cáceres, AR Kornblihtt - TRENDS in Genetics, 2002 - cell.com
Alternative splicing is an important mechanism for controlling gene expression. It allows
large proteomic complexity from a limited number of genes. An interplay of cis-acting …

Alternative splicing and isoforms: from mechanisms to diseases

Q Liu, L Fang, C Wu - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Alternative splicing of pre-mRNA is a key mechanism for increasing the complexity of
proteins in humans, causing a diversity of expression of transcriptomes and proteomes in a …

The function of alternative splicing in the proteome: rewiring protein interactomes to put old functions into new contexts

P Kjer-Hansen, RJ Weatheritt - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Alternative splicing affects more than 95% of multi-exon genes in the human genome. These
changes affect the proteome in a myriad of ways. Here, we review our understanding of the …