Alternative cleavage and polyadenylation in health and disease

AJ Gruber, M Zavolan - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Most human genes have multiple sites at which RNA 3ʹ end cleavage and polyadenylation
can occur, enabling the expression of distinct transcript isoforms under different conditions …

Alternative polyadenylation of mRNA precursors

B Tian, JL Manley - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
Alternative polyadenylation (APA) is an RNA-processing mechanism that generates distinct
3′ termini on mRNAs and other RNA polymerase II transcripts. It is widespread across all …

A day in the life of the spliceosome

AG Matera, Z Wang - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2014 - nature.com
One of the most amazing findings in molecular biology was the discovery that eukaryotic
genes are discontinuous, with coding DNA being interrupted by stretches of non-coding …

Alternative mRNA transcription, processing, and translation: insights from RNA sequencing

E de Klerk, P AC't Hoen - Trends in Genetics, 2015 - cell.com
The human transcriptome comprises> 80000 protein-coding transcripts and the estimated
number of proteins synthesized from these transcripts is in the range of 250000 to 1 million …

Context-specific regulation and function of mRNA alternative polyadenylation

S Mitschka, C Mayr - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Alternative cleavage and polyadenylation (APA) is a widespread mechanism to generate
mRNA isoforms with alternative 3′ untranslated regions (UTRs). The expression of …

Deep learning of human polyadenylation sites at nucleotide resolution reveals molecular determinants of site usage and relevance in disease

EK Stroup, Z Ji - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
The genomic distribution of cleavage and polyadenylation (polyA) sites should be co-
evolutionally optimized with the local gene structure. Otherwise, spurious polyadenylation …

Transcriptional control by premature termination: a forgotten mechanism

K Kamieniarz-Gdula, NJ Proudfoot - Trends in Genetics, 2019 - cell.com
The concept of early termination as an important means of transcriptional control has long
been established. Even so, its role in metazoan gene expression is underappreciated …

Cleavage and polyadenylation: Ending the message expands gene regulation

J Neve, R Patel, Z Wang, A Louey, AM Furger - RNA biology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Cleavage and polyadenylation (pA) is a fundamental step that is required for the maturation
of primary protein encoding transcripts into functional mRNAs that can be exported from the …

Handshakes and fights: the regulatory interplay of RNA-binding proteins

E Dassi - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2017 - frontiersin.org
What drives the flow of signals controlling the outcome of post-transcriptional regulation of
gene expression? This regulatory layer, presiding to processes ranging from splicing to …

Regulation of CHD2 expression by the Chaserr long noncoding RNA gene is essential for viability

A Rom, L Melamed, N Gil, MJ Goldrich, R Kadir… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Chromodomain helicase DNA binding protein 2 (Chd2) is a chromatin remodeller implicated
in neurological disease. Here we show that Chaserr, a highly conserved long noncoding …