Journal
GENES
Volume 12, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/genes12081272
Keywords
neurodegenerative diseases; Alzheimer's disease; Parkinson's disease; alternative pre-mRNA splicing; splicing factors; hypoxia
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- European Social Fund [09.3.3-LMT-K-712-02-0095]
- Research Council of Lithuania (LMT)
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Alternative pre-mRNA splicing is essential for generating protein diversity and is implicated in the pathogenesis of neurological disorders. The splicing machinery also plays a role in cellular adaptation to different microenvironments, such as hypoxia. Understanding the alternative splicing of genes associated with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases can provide insights into the development of these neurodegenerative conditions, including the influence of cellular hypoxic microenvironments.
Alternative pre-mRNA splicing plays a very important role in expanding protein diversity as it generates numerous transcripts from a single protein-coding gene. Therefore, alterations lead this process to neurological human disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Moreover, accumulating evidence indicates that the splicing machinery highly contributes to the cells' ability to adapt to different altered cellular microenvironments, such as hypoxia. Hypoxia is known to have an effect on the expression of proteins involved in a multiple of biological processes, such as erythropoiesis, angiogenesis, and neurogenesis, and is one of the important risk factors in neuropathogenesis. In this review, we discuss the current knowledge of alternatively spliced genes, which, as it is reported, are associated with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Additionally, we highlight the possible influence of cellular hypoxic microenvironment for the formation of mRNA isoforms contributing to the development of these neurodegenerative diseases.
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