Exploiting the Hidden Treasure of Detained Introns

Publication date: 9 October 2017
Source:Cancer Cell, Volume 32, Issue 4
Author(s): Xiang-Dong Fu
Many mammalian genes contain poorly spliced introns, resulting in nuclear detention of partially spliced transcripts, which may be exploited to modulate gene expression. In this issue of Cancer Cell, Braun et al. report that the arginine methyltransferase PRMT5 is critical for tumor cell proliferation by regulating numerous detained introns.

Teaser

Many mammalian genes contain poorly spliced introns, resulting in nuclear detention of partially spliced transcripts, which may be exploited to modulate gene expression. In this issue of Cancer Cell, Braun et al. report that the arginine methyltransferase PRMT5 is critical for tumor cell proliferation by regulating numerous detained introns.


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