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ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2012

Evolutionary dynamics of gene and isoform regulation in Mammalian tissues.

Jason Merkin, Caitlin Russell, Ping Chen, Christopher B Burge

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 619 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
619citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 50% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

619 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jason MerkinDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Caitlin Russell
Ping Chen
Christopher B Burge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · US

Funding

Upgrade of confocal microscopy at the Oregon National Primate Research CenterP51OD011092 · OD · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI Bonnie J. Nagel · 2012 to 2026
$203.9M
Regulation and Function of Alternative mRNA Isoform Expression in MammalsR01HG002439 · NHGRI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BURGE, CHRISTOPHER B · 2002 to 2024
$9.7M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG002439NIH HHS OD011092
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most mammalian genes produce multiple distinct messenger RNAs through alternative splicing, but the extent of splicing conservation is not clear. To assess tissue-specific transcriptome variation across mammals, we sequenced complementary DNA from nine tissues from four mammals and one bird in biological triplicate, at unprecedented depth. We find that while tissue-specific gene expression programs are largely conserved, alternative splicing is well conserved in only a subset of tissues and is frequently lineage-specific. Thousands of previously unknown, lineage-specific, and conserved alternative exons were identified; widely conserved alternative exons had signatures of binding by MBNL, PTB, RBFOX, STAR, and TIA family splicing factors, implicating them as ancestral mammalian splicing regulators. Our data also indicate that alternative splicing often alters protein phosphorylatability, delimiting the scope of kinase signaling.

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Alternative SplicingEvolution, MolecularGene Expression RegulationTranscriptomeAnimalsBiological EvolutionCattleChickensConserved SequenceDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA, ComplementaryExonsGene Expression ProfilingIntronsMacaca mulattaMaleDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA, ComplementaryMbnl1 protein, mouseProtein IsoformsProtein KinasesRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA Splice Sites

Identifiers

PMID23258891
PMCPMC3568499
OpenAlexW1532846663

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