The physiology of alternative splicing

LE Marasco, AR Kornblihtt - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Alternative splicing is a substantial contributor to the high complexity of transcriptomes of
multicellular eukaryotes. In this Review, we discuss the accumulated evidence that most of …

Roles and mechanisms of alternative splicing in cancer—implications for care

SC Bonnal, I López-Oreja, J Valcárcel - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Removal of introns from messenger RNA precursors (pre-mRNA splicing) is an essential
step for the expression of most eukaryotic genes. Alternative splicing enables the regulated …

[HTML][HTML] The role of alternative splicing in cancer: From oncogenesis to drug resistance

R Sciarrillo, A Wojtuszkiewicz, YG Assaraf… - Drug Resistance …, 2020 - Elsevier
Alternative splicing is a tightly regulated process whereby non-coding sequences of pre-
mRNA are removed and protein-coding segments are assembled in diverse combinations …

RNA-binding proteins in cancer: old players and new actors

B Pereira, M Billaud, R Almeida - Trends in cancer, 2017 - cell.com
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are key players in post-transcriptional events. The
combination of versatility of their RNA-binding domains with structural flexibility enables …

Therapeutic targeting of splicing in cancer

SCW Lee, O Abdel-Wahab - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Recent studies have highlighted that splicing patterns are frequently altered in cancer and
that mutations in genes encoding spliceosomal proteins, as well as mutations affecting the …

Alternative‐splicing defects in cancer: splicing regulators and their downstream targets, guiding the way to novel cancer therapeutics

LM Urbanski, N Leclair… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Defects in alternative splicing are frequently found in human tumors and result either from
mutations in splicing‐regulatory elements of specific cancer genes or from changes in the …

Spliceosome-targeted therapies trigger an antiviral immune response in triple-negative breast cancer

EA Bowling, JH Wang, F Gong, W Wu, NJ Neill, IS Kim… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Many oncogenic insults deregulate RNA splicing, often leading to hypersensitivity of tumors
to spliceosome-targeted therapies (STTs). However, the mechanisms by which STTs …

MYC: connecting selective transcriptional control to global RNA production

TR Kress, A Sabò, B Amati - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Two opposing models have been proposed to describe the function of the MYC oncoprotein
in shaping cellular transcriptomes: one posits that MYC amplifies transcription at all active …

Hallmarks of alternative splicing in cancer

S Oltean, DO Bates - Oncogene, 2014 - nature.com
The immense majority of genes are alternatively spliced and there are many isoforms
specifically associated with cancer progression and metastasis. The splicing pattern of …

Long noncoding RNA MALAT1 promotes hepatocellular carcinoma development by SRSF1 upregulation and mTOR activation

P Malakar, A Shilo, A Mogilevsky, I Stein, E Pikarsky… - Cancer research, 2017 - AACR
Several long noncoding RNAs (lncRNA) are abrogated in cancer but their precise
contributions to oncogenesis are still emerging. Here we report that the lncRNA MALAT1 is …