Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21343338›Full record

ArticleMolecular and cellular biology2011

RNA helicase p68 (DDX5) regulates tau exon 10 splicing by modulating a stem-loop structure at the 5' splice site.

Amar Kar, Kazuo Fushimi, Xiaohong Zhou, Payal Ray, Chen Shi, Xiaoping Chen, Zhiren Liu, She Chen, Jane Y Wu

Open access · greenAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Molecular and cellular biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 85 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
85citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

85 citing papers in PubMed, 125 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Human lncRNAProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
    Article
  5. Review
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. The RNA-Binding Proteins MCPIP2 and IGF2BP1 Competitively Modulate Breast Tumor Angiogenesis by Antagonizing VEGFA mRNA Stability and Expression.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025
    Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Asynchronous microexon splicing ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
    Article
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Article
  19. Review
  20. Review

25 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Amar KarNorthwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 E. Superior St., Lurie 6-117, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Kazuo Fushimi
Xiaohong Zhou
Payal Ray
Chen Shi
Xiaoping Chen
Zhiren Liu
She Chen
Jane Y Wu
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern UniversityGeorgia State University · USNational Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing · CNNorthwestern University · US

Funding

Theranostic Magnetic Nanostructures for the Molecular Imaging of CancerU54CA151880 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI MIRKIN, CHAD A. · 2010 to 2014
$11.5M
Mechanisms regulating tau alternative pre-mRNA splicingR01AG033004 · NIA · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI WU, JANE Y · 2011 to 2015
$1.5M
THE ROLE OF ALTERNATIVE SPLICING IN NEURODEGENERATIONR01AG017518 · NIA · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI WU, JANE Y · 1999 to 2003
$1.5M
NCI NIH HHS U54 CA151880NIA NIH HHS R01 AG017518NIA NIH HHS R01 AG033004NIA NIH HHS R01AG17518
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regulation of tau exon 10 splicing plays an important role in tauopathy. One of the cis elements regulating tau alternative splicing is a stem-loop structure at the 5' splice site of tau exon 10. The RNA helicase(s) modulating this stem-loop structure was unknown. We searched for splicing regulators interacting with this stem-loop region using an RNA affinity pulldown-coupled mass spectrometry approach and identified DDX5/RNA helicase p68 as an activator of tau exon 10 splicing. The activity of p68 in stimulating tau exon 10 inclusion is dependent on RBM4, an intronic splicing activator. RNase H cleavage and U1 protection assays suggest that p68 promotes conformational change of the stem-loop structure, thereby increasing the access of U1snRNP to the 5' splice site of tau exon 10. This study reports the first RNA helicase interacting with a stem-loop structure at the splice site and regulating alternative splicing in a helicase-dependent manner. Our work uncovers a previously unknown function of p68 in regulating tau exon 10 splicing. Furthermore, our experiments reveal functional interaction between two splicing activators for tau exon 10, p68 binding at the stem-loop region and RBM4 interacting with the intronic splicing enhancer region.

Indexed as

ExonsRNA SplicingCell LineDEAD-box RNA HelicasesHumansNucleic Acid ConformationRibonucleoproteins, Small NuclearRNA-Binding Proteinstau ProteinsDdx5 protein, humanDEAD-box RNA HelicasesRBM4 protein, humanRibonucleoproteins, Small NuclearRNA-Binding ProteinsSNRNP35 protein, humantau Proteins

Identifiers

PMID21343338
PMCPMC3133221
OpenAlexW2118004539

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.