Given the pivotal role that alternative splicing plays in the diversification of protein function, strategies capable of specifically reprogramming alternative splicing should improve our ability to address the function of individual isoforms, and will provide tools to alter or correct aberrant splicing decisions in clinically relevant genes.
Processing of both early and late primary transcripts requires participation of splicing factors including SF2/ASF, an ubiquitous factor which plays a pivotal role in alternative and constitutive splicing of precursor mRNAs of mammalian cells [12], [13], [14], [15], [16].
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Different siRNAs targeting SERCA2 efficiently abolished the CpG-induced activation of AMPK (Fig 3A), suggesting that SERCA2 indeed plays a pivotal role in the alternative TLR9 signalling in cardiomyocytes.
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The C-terminal fragment, Bb, of factor B combines with C3b to form the pivotal C3-convertase, C3bBb, of alternative complement pathway.
Our present study provides a new evidence for the pivotal impact of aberrations in alternative splicing pattern in carcinogenesis.
Moreover, recent studies demonstrate that alternative splicing plays a pivotal role in regulating tissue-specific patterns of gene expression [ 2- 7].
It is for this reason that the stance of the educator is proposed as pivotal to the success of such alternative approaches.
Our data underline the pivotal role of Prdm1 in switching between alternative muscle fibre type programmes in the zebrafish embryo.
