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 …

Pre-mRNA splicing and human disease

NA Faustino, TA Cooper - Genes & development, 2003 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The precision and complexity of intron removal during pre-mRNA splicing still amazes even
26 years after the discovery that the coding information of metazoan genes is interrupted by …

Induced pluripotent stem cells from a spinal muscular atrophy patient

AD Ebert, J Yu, FF Rose Jr, VB Mattis, CL Lorson… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Spinal muscular atrophy is one of the most common inherited forms of neurological disease
leading to infant mortality. Patients have selective loss of lower motor neurons resulting in …

Gain of toxic function by long-term AAV9-mediated SMN overexpression in the sensorimotor circuit

M Van Alstyne, I Tattoli, N Delestrée, Y Recinos… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The neurodegenerative disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is caused by deficiency in
the survival motor neuron (SMN) protein. Currently approved SMA treatments aim to restore …

Quantitative analyses of SMN1 and SMN2 based on real-time lightCycler PCR: fast and highly reliable carrier testing and prediction of severity of spinal muscular …

M Feldkötter, V Schwarzer, R Wirth, TF Wienker… - The American Journal of …, 2002 - cell.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a common autosomal recessive disorder in humans,
caused by homozygous absence of the survival motor neuron gene 1 (SMN1). SMN2, a …

Natural history of infantile‐onset spinal muscular atrophy

SJ Kolb, CS Coffey, JW Yankey… - Annals of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Infantile‐onset spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is the most common genetic cause
of infant mortality, typically resulting in death preceding age 2. Clinical trials in this …

Spinal muscular atrophy

MR Lunn, CH Wang - The Lancet, 2008 - thelancet.com
Spinal muscular atrophy is an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disease
characterised by degeneration of spinal cord motor neurons, atrophy of skeletal muscles …

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Rescue of the spinal muscular atrophy phenotype in a mouse model by early postnatal delivery of SMN

KD Foust, X Wang, VL McGovern, L Braun… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the most common autosomal recessive neurodegenerative
disease affecting children, results in impaired motor neuron function. Despite knowledge of …

Antisense correction of SMN2 splicing in the CNS rescues necrosis in a type III SMA mouse model

Y Hua, K Sahashi, G Hung, F Rigo… - Genes & …, 2010 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Increasing survival of motor neuron 2, centromeric (SMN2) exon 7 inclusion to express more
full-length SMN protein in motor neurons is a promising approach to treat spinal muscular …

Spinal muscular atrophy: why do low levels of survival motor neuron protein make motor neurons sick?

AHM Burghes, CE Beattie - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2009 - nature.com
Many neurogenetic disorders are caused by the mutation of ubiquitously expressed genes.
One such disorder, spinal muscular atrophy, is caused by loss or mutation of the survival …