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ArticleTrends in genetics : TIG2014

Alternative splicing regulation of telomerase: a new paradigm?

Mandy S Wong, Woodring E Wright, Jerry W Shay

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Article in Trends in genetics : TIG, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

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54citing papers in PubMed
5.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

54 citing papers in PubMed, 91 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Mandy S WongDepartment of Cell Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9039, USA.
Woodring E WrightDepartment of Cell Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9039, USA.
Jerry W ShayDepartment of Cell Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9039, USA; Center for Excellence in Genomics Medicine Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: jerry.shay@utsouthwestern.edu.
Southwestern Medical Center · USSouthwestern Medical Center

Funding

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS--SPORE IN LUNG CANCERP50CA070907 · NCI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI GIBBONS, DON LYNN · 1996 to 2024
$57.4M
UT Southwestern Medical Center Simmons Comprehensive Cancer CenterP30CA142543 · NCI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI Sandi Leigh Pruitt · 2010 to 2026
$53.7M
Cell Biology Research Improvements and RenovationsC06RR030414 · NCRR · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI FITZ, JOHN GREGORY · 2010 to 2010
$15.0M
Manipulating telomerase alternative splicing for cancer therapyR01CA154805 · NCI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI WRIGHT, WOODRING ERIK · 2011 to 2015
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS 5P30 CA142543NCI NIH HHS CA154805NCI NIH HHS P30 CA142543NCI NIH HHS P50 CA070907NCI NIH HHS R01 CA154805NCRR NIH HHS C06 RR030414NCRR NIH HHS C06 RR30414
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alternative splicing affects approximately 95% of eukaryotic genes, greatly expanding the coding capacity of complex genomes. Although our understanding of alternative splicing has increased rapidly, current knowledge of splicing regulation has largely been derived from studies of highly expressed mRNAs. Telomerase is a key example of a protein that is alternatively spliced, but it is expressed at very low levels and although it is known that misregulation of telomerase splicing is a hallmark of nearly all cancers, the details of this process are unclear. Here we review work showing that hTERT expression is in part regulated by atypical alternative splicing, perhaps due to its exceptionally low expression level. We propose that these differential regulatory mechanisms may be widely applicable to other genes and may provide new opportunities for the development of cancer therapeutics.

Indexed as

Alternative SplicingGene Expression RegulationAnimalsCell Adhesion MoleculesDrosophila ProteinsHumansMolecular Targeted TherapyNeoplasmsTelomeraseCell Adhesion MoleculesDrosophila ProteinsDscam1 protein, DrosophilaTelomeraseTERT protein, humancancer therapylow-abundance transcriptregulationRNA splicingtelomere

Identifiers

PMID25172021
PMCPMC4190675
OpenAlexW2066483615

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