The role of TREX in gene expression and disease

CG Heath, N Viphakone, SA Wilson - Biochemical Journal, 2016 - portlandpress.com
TRanscription and EXport (TREX) is a conserved multisubunit complex essential for
embryogenesis, organogenesis and cellular differentiation throughout life. By linking …

Mechanisms of origin, phenotypic effects and diagnostic implications of complex chromosome rearrangements

M Poot, T Haaf - Molecular syndromology, 2015 - karger.com
Complex chromosome rearrangements (CCRs) are currently defined as structural genome
variations that involve more than 2 chromosome breaks and result in exchanges of …

THOC2 mutations implicate mRNA-export pathway in X-linked intellectual disability

R Kumar, MA Corbett, BWM Van Bon… - The American Journal of …, 2015 - cell.com
Export of mRNA from the cell nucleus to the cytoplasm is essential for protein synthesis, a
process vital to all living eukaryotic cells. mRNA export is highly conserved and ubiquitous …

Skewed X-chromosome inactivation in unsolved neurodevelopmental disease cases can guide re-evaluation For X-linked genes

C Giovenino, S Trajkova, L Pavinato… - European Journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite major advances in genome technology and analysis,> 50% of patients with a
neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) remain undiagnosed after extensive evaluation. A …

Mechanism and regulation of co-transcriptional mRNP assembly and nuclear mRNA export

W Wende, P Friedhoff, K Sträßer - The biology of mRNA: structure and …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract mRNA is the “hermes” of gene expression as it carries the information of a protein-
coding gene to the ribosome. Already during its synthesis, the mRNA is bound by mRNA …

A tailored approach to fusion transcript identification increases diagnosis of rare inherited disease

GR Oliver, X Tang, LE Schultz-Rogers, N Vidal-Folch… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background RNA sequencing has been proposed as a means of increasing diagnostic rates
in studies of undiagnosed rare inherited disease. Recent studies have reported diagnostic …

RNA nuclear export: from neurological disorders to cancer

GM Hautbergue - … Medicine: Lessons from Neurodegeneration to Cancer, 2017 - Springer
The presence of a nuclear envelope, also known as nuclear membrane, defines the
structural framework of all eukaryotic cells by separating the nucleus, which contains the …

A meta-analysis of public microarray data identifies biological regulatory networks in Parkinson's disease

L Su, C Wang, C Zheng, H Wei, X Song - BMC medical genomics, 2018 - Springer
Background Parkinson's disease (PD) is a long-term degenerative disease that is caused by
environmental and genetic factors. The networks of genes and their regulators that control …

Compromised transcription-mRNA export factor THOC2 causes R-loop accumulation, DNA damage and adverse neurodevelopment

R Bhattacharjee, LA Jolly, MA Corbett, IC Wee… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
We implicated the X-chromosome THOC2 gene, which encodes the largest subunit of the
highly-conserved TREX (Tr anscription-Ex port) complex, in a clinically complex …

RNA degradation in neurodegenerative disease

K Weskamp, SJ Barmada - RNA Metabolism in Neurodegenerative …, 2018 - Springer
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) homeostasis is dynamically modulated in response to changing
physiological conditions. Tight regulation of RNA abundance through both transcription and …