Context-dependent control of alternative splicing by RNA-binding proteins

XD Fu, M Ares Jr - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Sequence-specific RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) bind to pre-mRNA to control alternative
splicing, but it is not yet possible to read the'splicing code'that dictates splicing regulation on …

Regulation of alternative splicing through coupling with transcription and chromatin structure

S Naftelberg, IE Schor, G Ast… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Alternative precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) splicing plays a pivotal role in the flow of
genetic information from DNA to proteins by expanding the coding capacity of genomes …

Evolutionary dynamics of gene and isoform regulation in Mammalian tissues

J Merkin, C Russell, P Chen, CB Burge - Science, 2012 - science.org
Most mammalian genes produce multiple distinct messenger RNAs through alternative
splicing, but the extent of splicing conservation is not clear. To assess tissue-specific …

Analysis and design of RNA sequencing experiments for identifying isoform regulation

Y Katz, ET Wang, EM Airoldi, CB Burge - Nature methods, 2010 - nature.com
Through alternative splicing, most human genes express multiple isoforms that often differ in
function. To infer isoform regulation from high-throughput sequencing of cDNA fragments …

Genome-scale deletion screening of human long non-coding RNAs using a paired-guide RNA CRISPR–Cas9 library

S Zhu, W Li, J Liu, CH Chen, Q Liao, P Xu, H Xu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas9 screens have been widely adopted to analyze coding-gene functions, but
high-throughput screening of non-coding elements using this method is more challenging …

[HTML][HTML] Hexanucleotide repeats in ALS/FTD form length-dependent RNA foci, sequester RNA binding proteins, and are neurotoxic

YB Lee, HJ Chen, JN Peres, J Gomez-Deza, J Attig… - Cell reports, 2013 - cell.com
Summary The GGGGCC (G4C2) intronic repeat expansion within C9ORF72 is the most
common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia …

The C9ORF72 GGGGCC expansion forms RNA G-quadruplex inclusions and sequesters hnRNP H to disrupt splicing in ALS brains

EG Conlon, L Lu, A Sharma, T Yamazaki, T Tang… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
An expanded GGGGCC hexanucleotide in C9ORF72 (C9) is the most frequent known cause
of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). It has been …

RNA G-quadruplexes: emerging mechanisms in disease

A Cammas, S Millevoi - Nucleic acids research, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract RNA G-quadruplexes (G4s) are formed by G-rich RNA sequences in protein-coding
(mRNA) and non-coding (ncRNA) transcripts that fold into a four-stranded conformation …

The role of hnRNPs in frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

A Bampton, LM Gittings, P Fratta, T Lashley… - Acta Neuropathologica, 2020 - Springer
Dysregulated RNA metabolism is emerging as a crucially important mechanism
underpinning the pathogenesis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and the clinically …

RNA G-quadruplex secondary structure promotes alternative splicing via the RNA-binding protein hnRNPF

H Huang, J Zhang, SE Harvey, X Hu… - Genes & …, 2017 - genesdev.cshlp.org
It is generally thought that splicing factors regulate alternative splicing through binding to
RNA consensus sequences. In addition to these linear motifs, RNA secondary structure is …