SnapShot: Splicing Alterations in Cancer.

Rahman, Mohammad Alinoor; Krainer, Adrian R; Abdel-Wahab, Omar · Cell · 2020

review · Level V

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Abstract

RNA splicing, the spliceosome-catalyzed process by which pre-messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) is processed to mature mRNA, is altered in a number of ways in cancer. Tumor-specific splicing alterations are created by mutations that disrupt splicing-regulatory elements within genes and impair splicing recognition or by altering the RNA-binding preferences of individual splicing factors. This SnapShot summarizes our current understanding of splicing-factor alterations in cancers. To view this SnapShot, open or download the PDF.

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