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 …

The changing paradigm of intron retention: regulation, ramifications and recipes

G Monteuuis, JJL Wong, CG Bailey… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Intron retention (IR) is a form of alternative splicing that has long been neglected in
mammalian systems although it has been studied for decades in non-mammalian species …

Droplet-based transcriptome profiling of individual synapses

M Niu, W Cao, Y Wang, Q Zhu, J Luo, B Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Synapses are crucial structures that mediate signal transmission between neurons in
complex neural circuits and display considerable morphological and electrophysiological …

Orchestrated intron retention regulates normal granulocyte differentiation

JJL Wong, W Ritchie, OA Ebner, M Selbach… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Intron retention (IR) is widely recognized as a consequence of mis-splicing that leads to
failed excision of intronic sequences from pre-messenger RNAs. Our bioinformatic analyses …

Pre-mRNA splicing is facilitated by an optimal RNA polymerase II elongation rate

N Fong, H Kim, Y Zhou, X Ji, J Qiu, T Saldi… - Genes & …, 2014 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Alternative splicing modulates expression of most human genes. The kinetic model of
cotranscriptional splicing suggests that slow elongation expands and that fast elongation …

Coordinated regulation of neuronal mRNA steady-state levels through developmentally controlled intron retention

K Yap, ZQ Lim, P Khandelia, B Friedman… - Genes & …, 2012 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Differentiated cells acquire unique structural and functional traits through coordinated
expression of lineage-specific genes. An extensive battery of genes encoding components …

The functional consequences of intron retention: alternative splicing coupled to NMD as a regulator of gene expression

Y Ge, BT Porse - Bioessays, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The explosion in sequencing technologies has provided us with an instrument to describe
mammalian transcriptomes at unprecedented depths. This has revealed that alternative …

Intron retention in mRNA: No longer nonsense: Known and putative roles of intron retention in normal and disease biology

JJL Wong, AYM Au, W Ritchie, JEJ Rasko - Bioessays, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Until recently, retention of introns in mature mRNAs has been regarded as a consequence of
mis‐splicing. Intron‐retaining transcripts are thought to be non‐functional because they are …

[HTML][HTML] DHA and its elaborated modulation of antioxidant defenses of the brain: Implications in aging and AD neurodegeneration

M Díaz, F Mesa-Herrera, R Marín - Antioxidants, 2021 - mdpi.com
DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) is perhaps the most pleiotropic molecule in nerve cell biology.
This long-chain highly unsaturated fatty acid has evolved to accomplish essential functions …

Pre-mRNA splicing: where and when in the nucleus

J Han, J **ong, D Wang, XD Fu - Trends in cell biology, 2011 - cell.com
Alternative splicing is a process to differentially link exon regions in a single precursor
mRNA to produce two or more different mature mRNAs, a strategy frequently used by higher …