CDK11, a splicing-associated kinase regulating gene expression

M Hluchý, D Blazek - Trends in Cell Biology, 2024 - cell.com
The ability of a cell to properly express its genes depends on optimal transcription and
splicing. RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) transcribes protein-coding genes and produces pre …

What is going on inside of phytochrome B photobodies?

BC Willige, CY Yoo, JP Saldierna Guzmán - The Plant Cell, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Plants exhibit an enormous phenotypic plasticity to adjust to changing environmental
conditions. For this purpose, they have evolved mechanisms to detect and measure biotic …

[HTML][HTML] Counteracting chromatin effects of a splicing-correcting antisense oligonucleotide improves its therapeutic efficacy in spinal muscular atrophy

LE Marasco, G Dujardin, R Sousa-Luís, YH Liu… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a motor-neuron disease caused by mutations of the SMN1
gene. The human paralog SMN2, whose exon 7 (E7) is predominantly skipped, cannot …

METTL3 regulates breast cancer-associated alternative splicing switches

C Achour, DP Bhattarai, P Groza, ÁC Román, F Aguilo - Oncogene, 2023 - nature.com
Alternative splicing (AS) enables differential inclusion of exons from a given transcript,
thereby contributing to the transcriptome and proteome diversity. Aberrant AS patterns play …

[HTML][HTML] Rescue of a familial dysautonomia mouse model by AAV9-Exon-specific U1 snRNA

G Romano, F Riccardi, E Bussani, S Vodret… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
Familial dysautonomia (FD) is a currently untreatable, neurodegenerative disease caused
by a splicing mutation (c. 2204+ 6T> C) that causes skip** of exon 20 of the elongator …

MYC-driven U2SURP regulates alternative splicing of SAT1 to promote triple-negative breast cancer progression

L Deng, L Liao, YL Zhang, SY Hu, SY Yang, XY Ma… - Cancer Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), although highly lethal, lacks validated therapeutic
targets. Here, we report that U2 snRNP-associated SURP motif-containing protein …

RBM22, a key player of pre-mRNA splicing and gene expression regulation, is altered in cancer

B Soubise, Y Jiang, N Douet-Guilbert, MB Troadec - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary RBM22 is a gene that encodes an essential RNA-Binding Protein involved
in pre-mRNA splicing and transcription, with a DNA-binding function. This dual RNA/DNA …

Tumour mutations in long noncoding RNAs enhance cell fitness

R Esposito, A Lanzós, T Uroda… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are linked to cancer via pathogenic changes in their
expression levels. Yet, it remains unclear whether lncRNAs can also impact tumour cell …

Targeted splicing therapy: new strategies for colorectal cancer

Y Zheng, G Zhong, C He, M Li - Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
RNA splicing is the process of forming mature mRNA, which is an essential phase
necessary for gene expression and controls many aspects of cell proliferation, survival, and …

AKT1 phosphorylates RBM17 to promote Sox2 transcription by modulating alternative splicing of FOXM1 to enhance cancer stem cell properties in colorectal cancer …

Y Fu, C Bai, S Wang, D Chen, P Zhang… - The FASEB …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the leading causes of cancer‐related death worldwide.
The existence of cancer stem cells (CSC) causes tumor relapses, metastasis, and resistance …