The coordination of local translation, membranous organelle trafficking, and synaptic plasticity in neurons

D Rajgor, TM Welle, KR Smith - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Neurons are highly complex polarized cells, displaying an extraordinary degree of spatial
compartmentalization. At presynaptic and postsynaptic sites, far from the cell body, local …

Alternative polyadenylation transcriptome-wide association study identifies APA-linked susceptibility genes in brain disorders

Y Cui, FJ Arnold, F Peng, D Wang, JS Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Alternative polyadenylation (APA) plays an essential role in brain development; however,
current transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) largely overlook APA in nominating …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding neurodevelopmental disorders: the promise of regulatory variation in the 3′ UTRome

KA Wanke, P Devanna, SC Vernes - Biological Psychiatry, 2018 - Elsevier
Neurodevelopmental disorders have a strong genetic component, but despite widespread
efforts, the specific genetic factors underlying these disorders remain undefined for a large …

Widespread translational remodeling during human neuronal differentiation

JD Blair, D Hockemeyer, JA Doudna, HS Bateup… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Faithful cellular differentiation requires temporally precise activation of gene expression
programs, which are coordinated at the transcriptional and translational levels. Neurons …

PacBio Iso-Seq improves the rainbow trout genome annotation and identifies alternative splicing associated with economically important phenotypes

A Ali, GH Thorgaard, M Salem - Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Rainbow trout is an important model organism that has received concerted international
efforts to study the transcriptome. For this purpose, short-read sequencing has been …

Comprehensive catalog of dendritically localized mRNA isoforms from sub-cellular sequencing of single mouse neurons

SA Middleton, J Eberwine, J Kim - BMC biology, 2019 - Springer
Background RNA localization involves cis-motifs that are recognized by RNA-binding
proteins (RBP), which then mediate localization to specific sub-cellular compartments. RNA …

cTag-PAPERCLIP reveals alternative polyadenylation promotes cell-type specific protein diversity and shifts Araf isoforms with microglia activation

HW Hwang, Y Saito, CY Park, NE Blachère, Y Tajima… - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Alternative polyadenylation (APA) is increasingly recognized to regulate gene expression
across different cell types, but obtaining APA maps from individual cell types typically …

[HTML][HTML] The TORC1-regulated CPA complex rewires an RNA processing network to drive autophagy and metabolic reprogramming

HW Tang, Y Hu, CL Chen, B Xia, J Zirin, M Yuan… - Cell metabolism, 2018 - cell.com
Nutrient deprivation induces autophagy through inhibiting TORC1 activity. We describe a
novel mechanism in Drosophila by which TORC1 regulates RNA processing of Atg …

Overlapping activities of ELAV/Hu family RNA binding proteins specify the extended neuronal 3′ UTR landscape in Drosophila

L Wei, S Lee, S Majumdar, B Zhang, P Sanfilippo… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
The tissue-specific deployment of highly extended neural 3′ UTR isoforms, generated by
alternative polyadenylation (APA), is a broad and conserved feature of metazoan genomes …

Transcriptomics-proteomics Integration reveals alternative polyadenylation driving inflammation-related protein translation in patients with diabetic nephropathy

T Zhao, D Zhan, S Qu, S Jiang, W Gan, W Qin… - Journal of Translational …, 2023 - Springer
Background Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a complex disease involving the upregulation of
many inflammation-related proteins. Alternative polyadenylation (APA), a crucial post …