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 …

Establishing Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as an industrial biotechnology host

MA Scaife, GTDT Nguyen, J Rico, D Lambert… - The Plant …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Microalgae constitute a diverse group of eukaryotic unicellular organisms that are of interest
for pure and applied research. Owing to their natural synthesis of value‐added natural …

The Chlamydomonas Genome Project, version 6: Reference assemblies for mating-type plus and minus strains reveal extensive structural mutation in the laboratory

RJ Craig, SD Gallaher, S Shu, PA Salomé… - The Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Five versions of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii reference genome have been produced
over the last two decades. Here we present version 6, bringing significant advances in …

Intron-containing algal transgenes mediate efficient recombinant gene expression in the green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

T Baier, J Wichmann, O Kruse… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Among green freshwater microalgae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has the most
comprehensive and developed molecular toolkit, however, advanced genetic and metabolic …

Alternative splicing: enhancing ability to cope with stress via transcriptome plasticity

AM Mastrangelo, D Marone, G Laidò, AM De Leonardis… - Plant Science, 2012 - Elsevier
Alternative splicing is a mechanism for the regulation of gene expression that is widespread
in higher eukaryotes. Genome-wide approaches, based on comparison of expressed and …

Introns mediate post-transcriptional enhancement of nuclear gene expression in the green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

T Baier, N Jacobebbinghaus, A Einhaus… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Efficient nuclear transgene expression in the green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is
generally hindered by low transcription rates. Introns can increase transcript abundance by …

Solanaceae XIPs are plasma membrane aquaporins that facilitate the transport of many uncharged substrates

GP Bienert, MD Bienert, TP Jahn, M Boutry… - The Plant …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Major intrinsic proteins (MIPs) transport water and uncharged solutes across membranes in
all kingdoms of life. Recently, an uncharacterized MIP subfamily was identified in the …

Origin of spliceosomal introns and alternative splicing

M Irimia, SW Roy - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2014 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
In this work we review the current knowledge on the prehistory, origins, and evolution of
spliceosomal introns. First, we briefly outline the major features of the different types of …

Comprehensive analysis of RNA-seq data reveals the complexity of the transcriptome in Brassica rapa

C Tong, X Wang, J Yu, J Wu, W Li, J Huang, C Dong… - BMC genomics, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Background The species Brassica rapa (2n= 20, AA) is an important vegetable and
oilseed crop, and serves as an excellent model for genomic and evolutionary research in …

SpliceGrapher: detecting patterns of alternative splicing from RNA-Seq data in the context of gene models and EST data

MF Rogers, J Thomas, ASN Reddy, A Ben-Hur - Genome biology, 2012 - Springer
We propose a method for predicting splice graphs that enhances curated gene models
using evidence from RNA-Seq and EST alignments. Results obtained using RNA-Seq …