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ArticleGenome research2011

Global impact of RNA polymerase II elongation inhibition on alternative splicing regulation.

Joanna Y Ip, Dominic Schmidt, Qun Pan, Arun K Ramani, Andrew G Fraser, Duncan T Odom, Benjamin J Blencowe

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Article in Genome research, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 145 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

145 citing papers in PubMed, 229 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. CAR-SPLASH identifies nascent pre-mRNA structures implicated in kinetic coupling and alternative splicing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  7. Alternative Splicing in Embryo Implantation.Maternal-fetal medicine (Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.) · 2025
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  15. An impaired splicing program underlies differentiation defects in hSOD1Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2023
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  20. Circular RNAs in Pregnancy and the Placenta.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Joanna Y IpBanting and Best Department of Medical Research, Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada.
Dominic Schmidt
Qun Pan
Arun K Ramani
Andrew G Fraser
Duncan T Odom
Benjamin J Blencowe
University of Toronto · CACancer Research UK · GB

Funding

Cancer Research UK 15603Cancer Research UK A15603CIHR MOP-67011European Research Council 202218Medical Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rate of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) elongation can influence splice site selection in nascent transcripts, yet the extent and physiological relevance of this kinetic coupling between transcription and alternative splicing (AS) is not well understood. We performed experiments to perturb Pol II elongation and then globally compared AS patterns with genome-wide Pol II occupancy. RNA binding and RNA processing functions were significantly enriched among the genes with Pol II elongation inhibition-dependent changes in AS. Under conditions that interfere with Pol II elongation, including cell stress, increased Pol II occupancy was detected in the intronic regions flanking the alternative exons in these genes, and these exons generally became more included. A disproportionately high fraction of these exons introduced premature termination codons that elicited nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD), thereby further reducing transcript levels. Our results provide evidence that kinetic coupling between transcription, AS, and NMD affords a rapid mechanism by which cells can respond to changes in growth conditions, including cell stress, to coordinate the levels of RNA processing factors with mRNA levels.

Indexed as

Alternative SplicingRNA StabilityTranscription, GeneticCodon, NonsenseEnzyme InhibitorsExonsGene Expression RegulationGenome, HumanHumansJurkat CellsMicroarray AnalysisMolecular Targeted TherapyRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, MessengerRNA Polymerase IICodon, NonsenseEnzyme InhibitorsRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, MessengerRNA Polymerase II

Identifiers

PMID21163941
PMCPMC3044853
OpenAlexW2109732750

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