Alternative splicing and evolution: diversification, exon definition and function

H Keren, G Lev-Maor, G Ast - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2010 - nature.com
Over the past decade, it has been shown that alternative splicing (AS) is a major mechanism
for the enhancement of transcriptome and proteome diversity, particularly in mammals …

The origin of new genes: glimpses from the young and old

M Long, E Betrán, K Thornton, W Wang - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2003 - nature.com
Genome data have revealed great variation in the numbers of genes in different organisms,
which indicates that there is a fundamental process of genome evolution: the origin of new …

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 …

Crystal structure of the lactose operon repressor and its complexes with DNA and inducer

M Lewis, G Chang, NC Horton, MA Kercher, HC Pace… - Science, 1996 - science.org
The lac operon of Escherichia coli is the paradigm for gene regulation. Its key component is
the lac repressor, a product of the lacI gene. The three-dimensional structures of the intact …

The evolution of spliceosomal introns: patterns, puzzles and progress

S William Roy, W Gilbert - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2006 - nature.com
The origins and importance of spliceosomal introns comprise one of the longest-abiding
mysteries of molecular evolution. Considerable debate remains over several aspects of the …

[HTML][HTML] Cytochromes P450

S Bak, F Beisson, G Bishop, B Hamberger… - The Arabidopsis Book …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
There are 244 cytochrome P450 genes (and 28 pseudogenes) in the Arabidopsis genome.
P450s thus form one of the largest gene families in plants. Contrary to what was initially …

Recurrent evolution of vertebrate transcription factors by transposase capture

RL Cosby, J Judd, R Zhang, A Zhong, N Garry… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION How novel protein architectures evolve remains poorly understood. The
rearrangement of domains with preexisting functions into new composite architectures …

Intron—exon structures of eukaryotic model organisms

M Long, M Deutsch - Nucleic acids research, 1999 - academic.oup.com
To investigate the distribution of intron—exon structures of eukaryotic genes, we have
constructed a general exon database comprising all available introncontaining genes and …

New gene evolution: little did we know

M Long, NW VanKuren, S Chen… - Annual review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Genes are perpetually added to and deleted from genomes during evolution. Thus, it is
important to understand how new genes are formed and how they evolve to be critical …

Where the minor things are: a pan-eukaryotic survey suggests neutral processes may explain much of minor intron evolution

GE Larue, SW Roy - Nucleic Acids Research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Spliceosomal introns are gene segments removed from RNA transcripts by
ribonucleoprotein machineries called spliceosomes. In some eukaryotes a second …