ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Splicing Fidelity: Enforcement, Modulation and Impairment.
In eukaryotes, the spliceosome removes non-coding introns from precursor messenger RNAs during pre-mRNA splicing. Crucially, many pre-mRNAs are spliced differently depending on cellular status or external stimuli. This “alternative splicing” reshapes the genetic information from a given mRNA to encode several protein isoforms and greatly diversifies proteomes. Splicing must be extremely precise as errors produce aberrant mRNA encoding potentially toxic proteins. Splicing fidelity relies on the accuracy of the spliceosome that assembles de novo on each pre-mRNA in a cotranscriptional manner, gets activated and selects the precise boundaries of introns to catalyse their excision. The…
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