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MOLECULAR CELL
Volume 80, Issue 4, Pages 648-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.10.019
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- NIH [R00CA178206, R01GM138541, R35GM118140, R01HG009900, R01HL142787, U01EB028898]
- NCI [P30CA034196]
- Google Cloud Platform Research Credit award
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The RNA isoform repertoire is regulated by splicing factor (SF) expression, and alterations in SF levels are associated with disease. SFs contain ultraconserved poison exon (PE) sequences that exhibit greater identity across species than nearby coding exons, but their physiological role and molecular regulation is incompletely understood. We show that PEs in serine-arginine-rich (SR) proteins, a family of 14 essential SFs, are differentially spliced during induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) differentiation and in tumors versus normal tissues. We uncover an extensive cross-regulatory network of SR proteins controlling their expression via alternative splicing coupled to nonsense-mediated decay. We define sequences that regulate PE inclusion and protein expression of the oncogenic SF TRA2 beta using an RNA-targeting CRISPR screen. We demonstrate location dependency of RS domain activity on regulation of TRA2 beta-PE using CRISPR artificial SFs. Finally, we develop splice-switching antisense oligonucleotides to reverse the increased skipping of TRA2 beta-PE detected in breast tumors, altering breast cancer cell viability, proliferation, and migration.
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