| Literature DB >> 20133523 |
Reini F Luco1, Qun Pan, Kaoru Tominaga, Benjamin J Blencowe, Olivia M Pereira-Smith, Tom Misteli.
Abstract
Alternative splicing of pre-mRNA is a prominent mechanism to generate protein diversity, yet its regulation is poorly understood. We demonstrated a direct role for histone modifications in alternative splicing. We found distinctive histone modification signatures that correlate with the splicing outcome in a set of human genes, and modulation of histone modifications causes splice site switching. Histone marks affect splicing outcome by influencing the recruitment of splicing regulators via a chromatin-binding protein. These results outline an adaptor system for the reading of histone marks by the pre-mRNA splicing machinery.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20133523 PMCID: PMC2913848 DOI: 10.1126/science.1184208
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728