SMN deficiency causes tissue-specific perturbations in the repertoire of snRNAs and widespread defects in splicing. Export

@article{zhang08, abstract = {The survival of motor neurons (SMN) protein is essential for the biogenesis of small nuclear RNA (snRNA)-ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs), the major components of the pre-mRNA splicing machinery. Though it is ubiquitously expressed, SMN deficiency causes the motor neuron degenerative disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). We show here that SMN deficiency, similar to that which occurs in severe SMA, has unexpected cell type-specific effects on the repertoire of snRNAs and mRNAs. It alters the stoichiometry of snRNAs and causes widespread pre-mRNA splicing defects in numerous transcripts of diverse genes, preferentially those containing a large number of introns, in SMN-deficient mouse tissues. These findings reveal a key role for the SMN complex in RNA metabolism and in splicing regulation and indicate that SMA is a general splicing disease that is not restricted to motor neurons.}, author = {Zhang, Z. and Lotti, F. and Dittmar, K. and Younis, I. and Wan, L. and Kasim, M. and Dreyfuss, G.}, citeulike-article-id = {4132371}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2008.03.031}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18485868}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18485868}, day = {16}, doi = {10.1016/j.cell.2008.03.031}, issn = {1097-4172}, journal = {Cell}, keywords = {expression, sma\_exon}, month = {May}, number = {4}, pages = {585--600}, posted-at = {2009-03-04 17:23:10}, priority = {2}, title = {SMN deficiency causes tissue-specific perturbations in the repertoire of snRNAs and widespread defects in splicing.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2008.03.031}, volume = {133}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - zhang08 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4132371 N2 - The survival of motor neurons (SMN) protein is essential for the biogenesis of small nuclear RNA (snRNA)-ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs), the major components of the pre-mRNA splicing machinery. Though it is ubiquitously expressed, SMN deficiency causes the motor neuron degenerative disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). We show here that SMN deficiency, similar to that which occurs in severe SMA, has unexpected cell type-specific effects on the repertoire of snRNAs and mRNAs. It alters the stoichiometry of snRNAs and causes widespread pre-mRNA splicing defects in numerous transcripts of diverse genes, preferentially those containing a large number of introns, in SMN-deficient mouse tissues. These findings reveal a key role for the SMN complex in RNA metabolism and in splicing regulation and indicate that SMA is a general splicing disease that is not restricted to motor neurons. IS - 4 JF - Cell SN - 1097-4172 EP - 600 TI - SMN deficiency causes tissue-specific perturbations in the repertoire of snRNAs and widespread defects in splicing. VL - 133 SP - 585 KW - expression KW - sma_exon AU - Zhang, Z AU - Lotti, F AU - Dittmar, K AU - Younis, I AU - Wan, L AU - Kasim, M AU - Dreyfuss, G PY - 2008/05/16/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2008.03.031 ER -