Quality and quantity control of gene expression by nonsense-mediated mRNA decay

T Kurosaki, MW Popp, LE Maquat - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2019 - nature.com
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is one of the best characterized and most
evolutionarily conserved cellular quality control mechanisms. Although NMD was first found …

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay: an intricate machinery that shapes transcriptomes

S Lykke-Andersen, TH Jensen - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2015 - nature.com
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is probably the best characterized eukaryotic RNA
degradation pathway. Through intricate steps, a set of NMD factors recognize and degrade …

Global impact of unproductive splicing on human gene expression

B Fair, CF Buen Abad Najar, J Zhao, S Lozano… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Alternative splicing (AS) in human genes is widely viewed as a mechanism for enhancing
proteomic diversity. AS can also impact gene expression levels without increasing protein …

Aberrant RNA splicing in cancer; expression changes and driver mutations of splicing factor genes

A Sveen, S Kilpinen, A Ruusulehto, RA Lothe… - Oncogene, 2016 - nature.com
Alternative splicing is a widespread process contributing to structural transcript variation and
proteome diversity. In cancer, the splicing process is commonly disrupted, resulting in both …

Complexity of the alternative splicing landscape in plants

ASN Reddy, Y Marquez, M Kalyna, A Barta - The Plant Cell, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Alternative splicing (AS) of precursor mRNAs (pre-mRNAs) from multiexon genes allows
organisms to increase their coding potential and regulate gene expression through multiple …

Intron retention as a component of regulated gene expression programs

AG Jacob, CWJ Smith - Human genetics, 2017 - Springer
Intron retention has long been an exemplar of regulated splicing with case studies of
individual events serving as models that provided key mechanistic insights into the process …

A view of pre-mRNA splicing from RNase R resistant RNAs

H Suzuki, T Tsukahara - International journal of molecular sciences, 2014 - mdpi.com
During pre-mRNA splicing, exons in the primary transcript are precisely connected to
generate an mRNA. Intron lariat RNAs are formed as by-products of this process. In addition …

IRFinder: assessing the impact of intron retention on mammalian gene expression

R Middleton, D Gao, A Thomas, B Singh, A Au… - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
Intron retention (IR) occurs when an intron is transcribed into pre-mRNA and remains in the
final mRNA. We have developed a program and database called IRFinder to accurately …

The landscape of isoform switches in human cancers

K Vitting-Seerup, A Sandelin - Molecular Cancer Research, 2017 - aacrjournals.org
Alternative usage of transcript isoforms from the same gene has been hypothesized as an
important feature in cancers. However, differential usage of gene transcripts between …

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay: degradation of defective transcripts is only part of the story

F He, A Jacobson - Annual review of genetics, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a eukaryotic surveillance mechanism that
monitors cytoplasmic mRNA translation and targets mRNAs undergoing premature …