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COLD SPRING HARBOR PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY
Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a000778
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- NIH [AR046799, NS048843, NS058901]
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES [R01AR046799] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE [P01NS058901, U54NS048843] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Pre-mRNA processing, including 5'-end capping, splicing, editing, and polyadenylation, consists of a series of orchestrated and primarily cotranscriptional steps that ensure both the high fidelity and extreme diversity characteristic of eukaryotic gene expression. Alternative splicing and editing allow relatively small genomes to encode vast proteomic arrays while alternative 3'-end formation enables variations in mRNA localization, translation, and stability. Of course, this mechanistic complexity comes at a high price. Mutations in the myriad of RNA sequence elements that regulate mRNA biogenesis, as well as the trans-acting factors that act upon these sequences, underlie a number of human diseases. In this review, we focus on one of these key RNA processing steps, splicing, to highlight recent studies that describe both conventional and novel pathogenic mechanisms that underlie muscle and neurological diseases.
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