RNA contributions to the form and function of biomolecular condensates

C Roden, AS Gladfelter - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensation partitions cellular contents and has important roles in stress
responses, maintaining homeostasis, development and disease. Many nuclear and …

Splicing and transcription touch base: co-transcriptional spliceosome assembly and function

L Herzel, DSM Ottoz, T Alpert… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
Several macromolecular machines collaborate to produce eukaryotic messenger RNA. RNA
polymerase II (Pol II) translocates along genes that are up to millions of base pairs in length …

Mechanisms and regulation of alternative pre-mRNA splicing

Y Lee, DC Rio - Annual review of biochemistry, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) splicing is a critical step in the posttranscriptional
regulation of gene expression, providing significant expansion of the functional proteome of …

Complexity of the alternative splicing landscape in plants

ASN Reddy, Y Marquez, M Kalyna, A Barta - The Plant Cell, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Alternative splicing (AS) of precursor mRNAs (pre-mRNAs) from multiexon genes allows
organisms to increase their coding potential and regulate gene expression through multiple …

Small molecule recognition of disease-relevant RNA structures

SM Meyer, CC Williams, Y Akahori, T Tanaka… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Targeting RNAs with small molecules represents a new frontier in drug discovery and
development. The rich structural diversity of folded RNAs offers a nearly unlimited reservoir …

Alternative splicing: a pivotal step between eukaryotic transcription and translation

AR Kornblihtt, IE Schor, M Alló, G Dujardin… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2013 - nature.com
Alternative splicing was discovered simultaneously with splicing over three decades ago.
Since then, an enormous body of evidence has demonstrated the prevalence of alternative …

Function of alternative splicing

O Kelemen, P Convertini, Z Zhang, Y Wen, M Shen… - Gene, 2013 - Elsevier
Almost all polymerase II transcripts undergo alternative pre-mRNA splicing. Here, we review
the functions of alternative splicing events that have been experimentally determined. The …

Coupling of RNA polymerase II transcription elongation with pre-mRNA splicing

T Saldi, MA Cortazar, RM Sheridan… - Journal of molecular …, 2016 - Elsevier
Pre-mRNA maturation frequently occurs at the same time and place as transcription by RNA
polymerase II. The co-transcriptionality of mRNA processing has permitted the evolution of …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetics in alternative pre-mRNA splicing

RF Luco, M Allo, IE Schor, AR Kornblihtt, T Misteli - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
Alternative splicing plays critical roles in differentiation, development, and disease and is a
major source for protein diversity in higher eukaryotes. Analysis of alternative splicing …

Pre-mRNA splicing is facilitated by an optimal RNA polymerase II elongation rate

N Fong, H Kim, Y Zhou, X Ji, J Qiu, T Saldi… - Genes & …, 2014 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Alternative splicing modulates expression of most human genes. The kinetic model of
cotranscriptional splicing suggests that slow elongation expands and that fast elongation …