During in vitro differentiation, pluripotent stem cells undergo extensive remodeling of their gene expression. While studied extensively at the transcriptome level, much less is known about protein dynamics, which can differ significantly from their mRNA counterparts. Here, researchers from Leiden ...
Read More »IsoFunc – Functional Annotation of Human Protein-Coding Splice Variant Using Multiple Instance Learning
The vast majority of human multiexon genes undergo alternative splicing and produce a variety of splice variant transcripts and proteins, which can perform different functions. These protein-coding splice variants (PCSVs) greatly increase the functional diversity of proteins. Most functional annotation ...
Read More »Incorporating RNA-Seq data to improve sensitivity of protein identification by tandem MS
Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) followed by database search is the method of choice for protein identification in proteomic studies. Database searching methods employ spectral matching algorithms and statistical models to identify and quantify proteins in a sample. In general, these ...
Read More »Methods for Analysis of RNA-Seq Datasets to Study Alternative Splicing
Alternative splicing is an important gene regulatory mechanism that dramatically increases the complexity of the proteome. However, how alternative splicing is regulated and how transcription and splicing are coordinated are still poorly understood, and functions of transcript isoforms have been ...
Read More »A dynamic alternative splicing program regulates gene expression
Alternative pre-messenger RNA splicing remodels the human transcriptome in a spatiotemporal manner during normal development and differentiation. Here researchers from the University of California, Berkeley explored the landscape of transcript diversity in the erythroid lineage by RNA-seq analysis of five ...
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