Alternative splicing: a pivotal step between eukaryotic transcription and translation

AR Kornblihtt, IE Schor, M Alló, G Dujardin… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2013 - nature.com
Alternative splicing was discovered simultaneously with splicing over three decades ago.
Since then, an enormous body of evidence has demonstrated the prevalence of alternative …

Alternative splicing: decoding an expansive regulatory layer

M Irimia, BJ Blencowe - Current opinion in cell biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Alternative splicing (AS) is the process by which splice sites in precursor (pre)-mRNA are
differentially selected to produce multiple mRNA and protein isoforms. During the past few …

The 3D-Evo space: evolution of gene expression and alternative splicing regulation

F Mantica, M Irimia - Annual Review of Genetics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Animal species present relatively high levels of gene conservation, and yet they display a
great variety of cell type and tissue phenotypes. These diverse phenotypes are mainly …

Two new and distinct roles for Drosophila Argonaute-2 in the nucleus: alternative pre-mRNA splicing and transcriptional repression

JM Taliaferro, JL Aspden, T Bradley… - Genes & …, 2013 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Transcription and pre-mRNA alternative splicing are highly regulated processes that play
major roles in modulating eukaryotic gene expression. It is increasingly apparent that other …

Regulated functional alternative splicing in Drosophila

JP Venables, J Tazi, F Juge - Nucleic acids research, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Alternative splicing expands the coding capacity of metazoan genes, and it was largely
genetic studies in the fruit-fly Drosophila melanogaster that established the principle that …

Functional coupling of transcription and splicing

M Montes, S Becerra, M Sánchez-Álvarez, C Suñé - Gene, 2012 - Elsevier
The tightly regulated process of precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) alternative splicing
is a key mechanism to increase the number and complexity of proteins encoded by the …

The identification of protein and RNA interactors of the splicing factor Caper in the adult Drosophila nervous system

MB Titus, AW Chang, N Popitsch… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Post-transcriptional gene regulation is a fundamental mechanism that helps regulate the
development and healthy aging of the nervous system. Mutations that disrupt the function of …

Encoding anatomy: developmental gene regulatory networks and morphogenesis

CA Ettensohn - genesis, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
A central challenge of developmental and evolutionary biology is to explain how anatomy is
encoded in the genome. Anatomy emerges progressively during embryonic development …

Evolution of splicing regulatory networks in Drosophila

CJ McManus, JD Coolon, J Eipper-Mains… - Genome …, 2014 - genome.cshlp.org
The proteome expanding effects of alternative pre-mRNA splicing have had a profound
impact on eukaryotic evolution. The events that create this diversity can be placed into four …

Evolutionarily emerged G tracts between the polypyrimidine tract and 3′ AG are splicing silencers enriched in genes involved in cancer

M Sohail, W Cao, N Mahmood, M Myschyshyn… - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Background The 3′ splice site (SS) at the end of pre-mRNA introns has a consensus
sequence (Y) n NYAG for constitutive splicing of mammalian genes. Deviation from this …