Alternative splicing regulatory networks: functions, mechanisms, and evolution

J Ule, BJ Blencowe - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
High-throughput sequencing-based methods and their applications in the study of
transcriptomes have revolutionized our understanding of alternative splicing. Networks of …

Functional consequences of developmentally regulated alternative splicing

A Kalsotra, TA Cooper - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2011 - nature.com
Genome-wide analyses of metazoan transcriptomes have revealed an unexpected level of
mRNA diversity that is generated by alternative splicing. Recently, regulatory networks have …

Alternative splicing landscapes in Arabidopsis thaliana across tissues and stress conditions highlight major functional differences with animals

G Martín, Y Márquez, F Mantica, P Duque, M Irimia - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Alternative splicing (AS) is a widespread regulatory mechanism in multicellular
organisms. Numerous transcriptomic and single-gene studies in plants have investigated AS …

Alternative splicing: decoding an expansive regulatory layer

M Irimia, BJ Blencowe - Current opinion in cell biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Alternative splicing (AS) is the process by which splice sites in precursor (pre)-mRNA are
differentially selected to produce multiple mRNA and protein isoforms. During the past few …

Brain evolution by brain pathway duplication

M Chakraborty, ED Jarvis - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Understanding the mechanisms of evolution of brain pathways for complex behaviours is
still in its infancy. Making further advances requires a deeper understanding of brain …

A developmentally programmed splicing failure contributes to DNA damage response attenuation during mammalian zygotic genome activation

CDR Wyatt, B Pernaute, A Gohr, M Miret-Cuesta… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Transition from maternal to embryonic transcriptional control is crucial for embryogenesis.
However, alternative splicing regulation during this process remains understudied. Using …

The 3D-Evo space: evolution of gene expression and alternative splicing regulation

F Mantica, M Irimia - Annual Review of Genetics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Animal species present relatively high levels of gene conservation, and yet they display a
great variety of cell type and tissue phenotypes. These diverse phenotypes are mainly …

Regulation of alternative splicing in Drosophila by 56 RNA binding proteins

AN Brooks, MO Duff, G May, L Yang… - Genome …, 2015 - genome.cshlp.org
Alternative splicing is regulated by RNA binding proteins (RBPs) that recognize pre-mRNA
sequence elements and activate or repress adjacent exons. Here, we used RNA …

Impact of gene gains, losses and duplication modes on the origin and diversification of vertebrates

C Cañestro, R Albalat, M Irimia… - Seminars in cell & …, 2013 - Elsevier
The study of the evolutionary origin of vertebrates has been linked to the study of genome
duplications since Susumo Ohno suggested that the successful diversification of vertebrate …

RBPMS2 is a myocardial-enriched splicing regulator required for cardiac function

AA Akerberg, M Trembley, V Butty… - Circulation …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: RBPs (RNA-binding proteins) perform indispensable functions in the post-
transcriptional regulation of gene expression. Numerous RBPs have been implicated in …