Emerging therapies and challenges in spinal muscular atrophy

MA Farrar, SB Park, S Vucic, KA Carey… - Annals of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disease with severity
ranging from progressive infantile paralysis and premature death (type I) to limited motor …

Hypoxia-induced alternative splicing: the 11th Hallmark of Cancer

AR Farina, L Cappabianca, M Sebastiano… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - Springer
Hypoxia-induced alternative splicing is a potent driving force in tumour pathogenesis and
progression. In this review, we update currents concepts of hypoxia-induced alternative …

hnRNP A1 dysfunction alters RNA splicing and drives neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis (MS)

HE Salapa, PA Thibault, CD Libner, Y Ding… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Neurodegeneration is the primary driver of disease progression in multiple sclerosis (MS)
resulting in permanent disability, creating an urgent need to discover its underlying …

Hypoxia leads to significant changes in alternative splicing and elevated expression of CLK splice factor kinases in PC3 prostate cancer cells

E Bowler, S Porazinski, S Uzor, P Thibault, M Durand… - BMC cancer, 2018 - Springer
Background Mounting evidence suggests that one of the ways that cells adapt to hypoxia is
through alternative splicing. The aim of this study was firstly to examine the effect of hypoxia …

How genetic modifiers influence the phenotype of spinal muscular atrophy and suggest future therapeutic approaches

B Wirth, L Garbes, M Riessland - Current opinion in genetics & …, 2013 - Elsevier
Both complex disorders and monogenetic diseases are often modulated in their phenotype
by further genetic, epigenetic or extrinsic factors. This gives rise to extensive phenotypic …

Vascular D efects and S pinal C ord H ypoxia in S pinal M uscular A trophy

E Somers, RD Lees, K Hoban, JN Sleigh… - Annals of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a major inherited cause of infant death
worldwide. It results from mutations in a single, ubiquitously expressed gene (SMN1), with …

Dysregulation of Mdm2 and Mdm4 alternative splicing underlies motor neuron death in spinal muscular atrophy

M Van Alstyne, CM Simon, SP Sardi… - Genes & …, 2018 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Ubiquitous deficiency in the survival motor neuron (SMN) protein causes death of motor
neurons—a hallmark of the neurodegenerative disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) …

Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A1 in health and neurodegenerative disease: from structural insights to post-transcriptional regulatory roles

U Bekenstein, H Soreq - Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, 2013 - Elsevier
Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs) are a family of conserved nuclear
proteins that associate with nascent RNA polymerase II transcripts to yield hnRNP particles …

[HTML][HTML] Spinal muscular atrophy: Broad disease spectrum and sex-specific phenotypes

NN Singh, S Hoffman, PP Reddi, RN Singh - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2021 - Elsevier
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is one of the major genetic disorders associated with infant
mortality. More than 90% of cases of SMA result from deletions of or mutations in the …

Stasimon contributes to the loss of sensory synapses and motor neuron death in a mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy

CM Simon, M Van Alstyne, F Lotti, E Bianchetti… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
Reduced expression of the survival motor neuron (SMN) protein causes the
neurodegenerative disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Here, we show that adeno …