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ReviewThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2019

Mechanisms of Neuronal Alternative Splicing and Strategies for Therapeutic Interventions.

Eduardo Javier Lopez Soto, Michael J Gandal, Thomas Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis, Elizabeth A Heller, Diou Luo, Sika Zheng

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Review in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

6 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Eduardo Javier Lopez SotoDepartment of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, Eduardo_lopez_soto@brown.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-3298-8001
Michael J GandalDepartment of Psychiatry, Semel Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095.ORCID 0000-0001-5800-5128
Thomas Gonatopoulos-PournatzisDonnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2669-2570
Elizabeth A HellerDepartment of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-5158.
Diou LuoDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, and.ORCID 0000-0001-5499-9559
Sika ZhengDivision of Biomedical Sciences, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California 92521.
Brown University · USIowa State University · USTranslational Therapeutics (United States) · USUniversity of California, Los Angeles · USUniversity of California, Riverside · USUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

Splicing Regulation of Spinal Muscular Atrophy GenesR01NS055925 · NINDS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI SINGH, RAVINDRA N · 2006 to 2023
$5.6M
Isoform-level probabilistic transcriptome-wide association to undercover neurogenetic mechanisms underlying complex psychiatric traitsR01MH121521 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI GANDAL, MICHAEL · 2020 to 2024
$3.4M
RNA regulation of intrinsically-determined neuronal propertiesR01MH116220 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE · PI ZHENG, SIKA · 2018 to 2022
$2.4M
The Regulation and Function of Neuron-Specific Alternative SplicingR01NS104041 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE · PI ZHENG, SIKA · 2018 to 2022
$2.1M
Dual-masking oligonucleotides as potential therapy of Spinal Muscular AtrophyR21NS101312 · NINDS · IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI SINGH, RAVINDRA N · 2017 to 2018
$419k
Abnormal gene splicing in neuropathic pain - SupplementK99NS116123 · NINDS · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI LOPEZ SOTO, EDUARDO JAVIER · 2020 to 2021
$184k
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH116220NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH121521NINDS NIH HHS K99 NS116123NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS055925NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS104041NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS101312
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many cellular and physiological processes are coordinated by regulatory networks that produce a remarkable complexity of transcript isoforms. In the mammalian nervous system, alternative pre-mRNA splicing generates functionally distinct isoforms that play key roles in normal physiology, supporting development, plasticity, complex behaviors, and cognition. Neuronal splicing programs controlled by RNA-binding proteins, are influenced by chromatin modifications and can exhibit neuronal subtype specificity. As highlighted in recent publications, aberrant alternative splicing is a major contributor to disease phenotypes. Therefore, understanding the underlying mechanisms of alternative splicing regulation and identifying functional splicing isoforms with critical phenotypic roles are expected to provide a comprehensive resource for therapeutic development, as illuminated by recent successful interventions of spinal muscular atrophy. Here, we discuss the latest progress in the study of the emerging complexity of alternative splicing mechanisms in neurons, and how these findings inform new therapies to correct and control splicing defects.

Indexed as

Alternative SplicingAnimalsAutism Spectrum DisorderHumansMuscular Atrophy, SpinalNeuronsProtein IsoformsRNA SplicingProtein Isoformsalternative splicingautism spectrum disorder (ASD)axonogenesisCACNA1Bchromatinspinal muscular atrophy (SMA)

Identifiers

PMID31619487
PMCPMC6794923
OpenAlexW2981277940

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