Evolution of SR protein and hnRNP splicing regulatory factors

A Busch, KJ Hertel - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The splicing of pre‐mRNAs is an essential step of gene expression in eukaryotes. Introns
are removed from split genes through the activities of the spliceosome, a large ribonuclear …

Inositol 5-phosphatases: insights from the Lowe syndrome protein OCRL

M Pirruccello, P De Camilli - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2012 - cell.com
The precise regulation of phosphoinositide lipids in cellular membranes is crucial for cellular
survival and function. Inositol 5-phosphatases have been implicated in a variety of disorders …

The evolutionary landscape of alternative splicing in vertebrate species

NL Barbosa-Morais, M Irimia, Q Pan, HY Xiong… - Science, 2012 - science.org
How species with similar repertoires of protein-coding genes differ so markedly at the
phenotypic level is poorly understood. By comparing organ transcriptomes from vertebrate …

Genetic variation in the alternative splicing regulator RBM20 is associated with dilated cardiomyopathy

MM Refaat, SA Lubitz, S Makino, Z Islam… - Heart Rhythm, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a leading cause of heart failure and
death. The etiology of DCM is genetically heterogeneous. OBJECTIVES: We sought to …

Effects of genotype and child abuse on DNA methylation and gene expression at the serotonin transporter

M Vijayendran, SRH Beach, JM Plume… - Frontiers in …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Altered regulation of the serotonin transporter (SLC6A4) is hypothesized to be a key event in
many forms of neuropsychiatric illness, yet our understanding of the molecular mechanisms …

Deep RNA sequencing reveals novel cardiac transcriptomic signatures for physiological and pathological hypertrophy

HK Song, SE Hong, T Kim, DH Kim - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Although both physiological hypertrophy (PHH) and pathological hypertrophy (PAH) of the
heart have similar morphological appearances, only PAH leads to fatal heart failure. In the …

Deciphering the plant splicing code: experimental and computational approaches for predicting alternative splicing and splicing regulatory elements

ASN Reddy, MF Rogers, DN Richardson… - Frontiers in plant …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Extensive alternative splicing (AS) of precursor mRNAs (pre-mRNAs) in multicellular
eukaryotes increases the protein-coding capacity of a genome and allows novel ways to …

Comparative proteomics reveals a significant bias toward alternative protein isoforms with conserved structure and function

I Ezkurdia, A del Pozo, A Frankish… - Molecular biology …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Advances in high-throughput mass spectrometry are making proteomics an increasingly
important tool in genome annotation projects. Peptides detected in mass spectrometry …

MALAT-1, a non protein-coding RNA is upregulated in the cerebellum, hippocampus and brain stem of human alcoholics

R Kryger, L Fan, PA Wilce, V Jaquet - Alcohol, 2012 - Elsevier
Chronic alcohol intake induces neurochemical adaptative changes in the brain
characterised by altered gene expression. A role for non-coding RNAs in alcoholism is …

Alternative splicing: a potential source of functional innovation in the eukaryotic genome

L Chen, JM Tovar-Corona… - International journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Alternative splicing (AS) is a common posttranscriptional process in eukaryotic organisms,
by which multiple distinct functional transcripts are produced from a single gene. The …