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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2022

Alternative pre-mRNA splicing as a mechanism for terminating Toll-like Receptor signaling.

Frank Fang Yao Lee, Scott Alper

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Alternative splicing of toll-like receptor pathway mRNAs in lung immune cells from patients with ARDS.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2026
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  3. Splicing-driven post-translational dysregulation: a new frontier for precision cancer medicine and immunotherapy.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  5. Frontiers in immunology · 2026
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  8. Role of TLRs as signaling cascades to combat infectious diseases: a review.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Frank Fang Yao LeeDepartment of Immunology and Genomic Medicine and Center for Genes, Environment, and Health, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, United States.
Scott AlperDepartment of Immunology and Genomic Medicine and Center for Genes, Environment, and Health, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, United States.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus · USUniversity of Colorado Denver · US

Funding

MDS-Associated Spliceosome Mutations Regulate Host DefenseR01AI155749 · NIAID · NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH · PI ALPER, SCOTT · 2021 to 2025
$2.7M
Temporal regulation of pulmonary inflammation by MyD88 alternative pre-mRNA splicingR01HL148335 · NHLBI · NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH · PI ALPER, SCOTT · 2019 to 2022
$2.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL148335NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI155749
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While inflammation induced by Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling is required to combat infection, persistent inflammation can damage host tissues and contribute to a myriad of acute and chronic inflammatory disorders. Thus, it is essential not only that TLR signaling be activated in the presence of pathogens but that TLR signaling is ultimately terminated. One mechanism that limits persistent TLR signaling is alternative pre-mRNA splicing. In addition to encoding the canonical mRNAs that produce proteins that promote inflammation, many genes in the TLR signaling pathway also encode alternative mRNAs that produce proteins that are dominant negative inhibitors of signaling. Many of these negative regulators are induced by immune challenge, so production of these alternative isoforms represents a negative feedback loop that limits persistent inflammation. While these alternative splicing events have been investigated on a gene by gene basis, there has been limited systemic analysis of this mechanism that terminates TLR signaling. Here we review what is known about the production of negatively acting alternative isoforms in the TLR signaling pathway including how these inhibitors function, how they are produced, and what role they may play in inflammatory disease.

Indexed as

RNA PrecursorsToll-Like ReceptorsHumansInflammationRNA SplicingSignal TransductionRNA PrecursorsToll-Like Receptorsinflammationinnate immunitypre-mRNA splicingRNA binding proteinspliceosomeTLR signaling

Identifiers

PMID36531997
PMCPMC9755862
OpenAlexW4311111672

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