Alternative cleavage and polyadenylation in health and disease

AJ Gruber, M Zavolan - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Most human genes have multiple sites at which RNA 3ʹ end cleavage and polyadenylation
can occur, enabling the expression of distinct transcript isoforms under different conditions …

What are 3′ UTRs doing?

C Mayr - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2019 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
SUMMARY 3′ untranslated regions (3′ UTRs) of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) are best
known to regulate mRNA-based processes, such as mRNA localization, mRNA stability, and …

Epigenetic therapy induces transcription of inverted SINEs and ADAR1 dependency

P Mehdipour, SA Marhon, I Ettayebi, A Chakravarthy… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer therapies that target epigenetic repressors can mediate their effects by activating
retroelements within the human genome. Retroelement transcripts can form double …

An atlas of alternative polyadenylation quantitative trait loci contributing to complex trait and disease heritability

L Li, KL Huang, Y Gao, Y Cui, G Wang, ND Elrod, Y Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of noncoding variants
associated with human traits and diseases. However, the functional interpretation of these …

N6-methyladenosine demethylase FTO targets pre-mRNAs and regulates alternative splicing and 3′-end processing

M Bartosovic, HC Molares, P Gregorova… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is the most abundant base modification found in
messenger RNAs (mRNAs). The discovery of FTO as the first m6A mRNA demethylase …

PolyASite 2.0: a consolidated atlas of polyadenylation sites from 3′ end sequencing

CJ Herrmann, R Schmidt, A Kanitz, P Artimo… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Generated by 3′ end cleavage and polyadenylation at alternative polyadenylation (poly
(A)) sites, alternative terminal exons account for much of the variation between human …

Widespread intronic polyadenylation inactivates tumour suppressor genes in leukaemia

SH Lee, I Singh, S Tisdale, O Abdel-Wahab, CS Leslie… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
DNA mutations are known cancer drivers. Here we investigated whether mRNA events that
are upregulated in cancer can functionally mimic the outcome of genetic alterations. RNA …

[HTML][HTML] A deep neural network for predicting and engineering alternative polyadenylation

N Bogard, J Linder, AB Rosenberg, G Seelig - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Alternative polyadenylation (APA) is a major driver of transcriptome diversity in human cells.
Here, we use deep learning to predict APA from DNA sequence alone. We trained our …

Function of HNRNPC in breast cancer cells by controlling the dsRNA‐induced interferon response

Y Wu, W Zhao, Y Liu, X Tan, X Li, Q Zou, Z Xiao… - The EMBO …, 2018 - embopress.org
Elevated expression of RNA binding protein HNRNPC has been reported in cancer cells,
while the essentialness and functions of HNRNPC in tumors were not clear. We showed that …

[HTML][HTML] Context-specific regulation and function of mRNA alternative polyadenylation

S Mitschka, C Mayr - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Alternative cleavage and polyadenylation (APA) is a widespread mechanism to generate
mRNA isoforms with alternative 3′ untranslated regions (UTRs). The expression of …