Defective minor spliceosomes induce SMA-associated phenotypes through sensitive intron-containing neural genes in Drosophila

oleh: Liang Li, Zhan Ding, Ting-Lin Pang, Bei Zhang, Chen-Hui Li, An-Min Liang, Yu-Ru Wang, Yu Zhou, Yu-Jie Fan, Yong-Zhen Xu

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2020-11-01

Deskripsi

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is associated with minor splicing-related defects. Here the authors develop Drosophila models with minor spliceosomal-snRNA deletions, and demonstrate SMA-like phenotypes.