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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-4-24
pubmed:abstractText
Gene expression involves multiple regulated steps leading from gene to active protein. Many of these steps involve some aspect of RNA processing. Diseases caused by mutations that directly affect RNA processing are relatively rare compared with mutations that disrupt protein function. The vast majority of diseases of RNA processing result from loss of function of a single gene due to mutations in cis-acting elements required for pre-messenger RNA (mRNA) splicing. However, a few diseases are caused by alterations in the trans-acting factors required for RNA processing and in the vast majority of cases it is the pre-mRNA splicing machinery that is affected. Clearly, alterations that disrupt splicing of pre-mRNAs from large numbers of genes would be lethal at the cellular level. A common theme among these diseases is that only subsets of genes are affected. This is consistent with an emerging view that different subsets of exons require different sets of cis-acting elements and trans-acting factors.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1420-682X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
57
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
235-49
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
RNA processing and human disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't