The physiology of alternative splicing

LE Marasco, AR Kornblihtt - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Alternative splicing is a substantial contributor to the high complexity of transcriptomes of
multicellular eukaryotes. In this Review, we discuss the accumulated evidence that most of …

Regulation of pre-mRNA splicing: roles in physiology and disease, and therapeutic prospects

ME Rogalska, C Vivori, J Valcárcel - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The removal of introns from mRNA precursors and its regulation by alternative splicing are
key for eukaryotic gene expression and cellular function, as evidenced by the numerous …

Protein arginine methylation: from enigmatic functions to therapeutic targeting

Q Wu, M Schapira, CH Arrowsmith… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) are emerging as attractive therapeutic targets.
PRMTs regulate transcription, splicing, RNA biology, the DNA damage response and cell …

Roles and mechanisms of alternative splicing in cancer—implications for care

SC Bonnal, I López-Oreja, J Valcárcel - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Removal of introns from messenger RNA precursors (pre-mRNA splicing) is an essential
step for the expression of most eukaryotic genes. Alternative splicing enables the regulated …

MRTX1719 Is an MTA-Cooperative PRMT5 Inhibitor That Exhibits Synthetic Lethality in Preclinical Models and Patients with MTAP-Deleted Cancer

LD Engstrom, R Aranda, L Waters, K Moya, V Bowcut… - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
Previous studies implicated protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) as a synthetic
lethal target for MTAP-deleted (MTAP del) cancers; however, the pharmacologic …

Full-length transcript characterization of SF3B1 mutation in chronic lymphocytic leukemia reveals downregulation of retained introns

AD Tang, CM Soulette, MJ van Baren, K Hart… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
While splicing changes caused by somatic mutations in SF3B1 are known, identifying full-
length isoform changes may better elucidate the functional consequences of these …

MAT2A inhibition blocks the growth of MTAP-deleted cancer cells by reducing PRMT5-dependent mRNA splicing and inducing DNA damage

P Kalev, ML Hyer, S Gross, Z Konteatis, CC Chen… - Cancer Cell, 2021 - cell.com
The methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP) gene is located adjacent to the cyclin-
dependent kinase inhibitor 2A (CDKN2A) tumor-suppressor gene and is co-deleted with …

[HTML][HTML] PRMT5 function and targeting in cancer

H Kim, AR Ze'ev - Cell stress, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Protein methyl transferases play critical roles in numerous regulatory pathways that underlie
cancer development, progression and therapy-response. Here we discuss the function of …

PRMTs and arginine methylation: cancer's best-kept secret?

J Jarrold, CC Davies - Trends in molecular medicine, 2019 - cell.com
Post-translational modification (PTM) of proteins is vital for increasing proteome diversity
and maintaining cellular homeostasis. If the writing, reading, and removal of modifications …

Alternative mRNA splicing in cancer immunotherapy

L Frankiw, D Baltimore, G Li - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2019 - nature.com
Immunotherapies are yielding effective treatments for several previously untreatable
cancers. Still, the identification of suitable antigens specific to the tumour that can be targets …