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 as a source of phenotypic diversity

CJ Wright, CWJ Smith, CD Jiggins - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
A major goal of evolutionary genetics is to understand the genetic processes that give rise to
phenotypic diversity in multicellular organisms. Alternative splicing generates multiple …

[HTML][HTML] Global detection of human variants and isoforms by deep proteome sequencing

P Sinitcyn, AL Richards, RJ Weatheritt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
An average shotgun proteomics experiment detects approximately 10,000 human proteins
from a single sample. However, individual proteins are typically identified by peptide …

[HTML][HTML] A guide for the diagnosis of rare and undiagnosed disease: beyond the exome

S Marwaha, JW Knowles, EA Ashley - Genome medicine, 2022 - Springer
Rare diseases affect 30 million people in the USA and more than 300–400 million
worldwide, often causing chronic illness, disability, and premature death. Traditional …

Biogenesis and regulatory roles of circular RNAs

L Yang, JE Wilusz, LL Chen - Annual review of cell and …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Covalently closed, single-stranded circular RNAs can be produced from viral RNA genomes
as well as from the processing of cellular housekeeping noncoding RNAs and precursor …

Regulation of pre-mRNA splicing: roles in physiology and disease, and therapeutic prospects

ME Rogalska, C Vivori, J Valcárcel - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The removal of introns from mRNA precursors and its regulation by alternative splicing are
key for eukaryotic gene expression and cellular function, as evidenced by the numerous …

[HTML][HTML] CADD-Splice—improving genome-wide variant effect prediction using deep learning-derived splice scores

P Rentzsch, M Schubach, J Shendure, M Kircher - Genome medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background Splicing of genomic exons into mRNAs is a critical prerequisite for the accurate
synthesis of human proteins. Genetic variants impacting splicing underlie a substantial …

UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021

Nucleic acids research, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The aim of the UniProt Knowledgebase is to provide users with a comprehensive, high-
quality and freely accessible set of protein sequences annotated with functional information …

RNA in cancer

GJ Goodall, VO Wickramasinghe - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
While the processing of mRNA is essential for gene expression, recent findings have
highlighted that RNA processing is systematically altered in cancer. Mutations in RNA …

[HTML][HTML] CellRank for directed single-cell fate mapping

M Lange, V Bergen, M Klein, M Setty, B Reuter… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Computational trajectory inference enables the reconstruction of cell state dynamics from
single-cell RNA sequencing experiments. However, trajectory inference requires that the …