Widespread regulated alternative splicing of single codons accelerates proteome evolution

ABSTRACT: Thousands of human genes contain introns ending in NAGNAG motifs (N any nucleotide), where both NAGs can function as 3' splice sites, yielding isoforms differing by inclusion/exclusion of just three bases. However, the functional importance of NAGNAG alternative splicing is highly controversial. Using very deep RNA-Seq data from sixteen human and eight mouse tissues, we found that approximately half of alternatively spliced NAGNAGs undergo tissue-specific regulation and that regulated events have been selectively retained: alternative splicing of strongly tissue-specific NAGNAGs was ten times as likely to be conserved between species as for non-tissue-specific events. Further, alternative splicing of human NAGNAGs was associated with an order of magnitude increase in the frequency of exon

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Robert Bradley 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-30017 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress