Regulation of pre-mRNA splicing: roles in physiology and disease, and therapeutic prospects

ME Rogalska, C Vivori, J Valcárcel - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The removal of introns from mRNA precursors and its regulation by alternative splicing are
key for eukaryotic gene expression and cellular function, as evidenced by the numerous …

Biomolecular condensates: new opportunities for drug discovery and RNA therapeutics

BA Conti, M Oppikofer - Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 2022 - cell.com
Biomolecular condensates organize cellular functions in the absence of membranes. These
membraneless organelles can form through liquid–liquid phase separation coalescing RNA …

Nuclear speckles–a driving force in gene expression

GP Faber, S Nadav-Eliyahu… - Journal of cell …, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
Nuclear speckles are dynamic membraneless bodies located in the cell nucleus. They
harbor RNAs and proteins, many of which are splicing factors, that together display complex …

Profiling lariat intermediates reveals genetic determinants of early and late co-transcriptional splicing

Y Zeng, BJ Fair, H Zeng, A Krishnamohan, Y Hou… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Long introns with short exons in vertebrate genes are thought to require spliceosome
assembly across exons (exon definition), rather than introns, thereby requiring transcription …

Dynamics of RNA localization to nuclear speckles are connected to splicing efficiency

J Wu, Y Xiao, Y Liu, L Wen, C Jin, S Liu, S Paul… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Nuclear speckles are nuclear membraneless organelles in higher eukaryotic cells playing a
vital role in gene expression. Using an in situ reverse transcription–based sequencing …

Multiomic characterization of RNA microenvironments by oligonucleotide-mediated proximity-interactome mapping

AF Tsue, EE Kania, DQ Lei, R Fields, CD McGann… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
RNA molecules form complex networks of molecular interactions that are central to their
function and to cellular architecture. But these interaction networks are difficult to probe in …

Pharmacological perturbation of the phase-separating protein SMNDC1

L Enders, M Siklos, J Borggräfe, S Gaussmann… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
SMNDC1 is a Tudor domain protein that recognizes di-methylated arginines and controls
gene expression as an essential splicing factor. Here, we study the specific contributions of …

Co-transcriptional gene regulation in eukaryotes and prokaryotes

M Shine, J Gordon, L Schärfen, D Zigackova… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Many steps of RNA processing occur during transcription by RNA polymerases. Co-
transcriptional activities are deemed commonplace in prokaryotes, in which the lack of …

Genome organization around nuclear speckles drives mRNA splicing efficiency

P Bhat, A Chow, B Emert, O Ettlin, SA Quinodoz… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The nucleus is highly organized, such that factors involved in the transcription and
processing of distinct classes of RNA are confined within specific nuclear bodies,. One …

Emerging roles of nuclear bodies in genome spatial organization

L Shan, P Li, H Yu, LL Chen - Trends in Cell Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Nuclear bodies (NBs) are biomolecular condensates that participate in various cellular
processes and respond to cellular stimuli in the nucleus. The assembly and function of these …