RNA map provides first comprehensive understanding of alternativ...( r new work lays out an approach to deve...)

r new work lays out an approach to developing a global understanding of how alternative splicing is regulated by one disease-associated protein, Nova, offering a route by which scientists may now be able to approach a number of diseases with a fresh start."

Finally, Darnell's work has shown that Nova is expressed in certain types of cancer cells. Cancer cells operate by dysregulating gene expression, and Darnell believes that further studies are needed to determine whether Nova is a cause of dysregulated gene expression at the level of alternative splicing in a cancer cell.

"The right splicing factor in the wrong environment could wreck havoc and change the quality of proteins in a tumor cell," he says.

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Contact: Joseph Bonner
bonnerj@rockefeller.edu
212-327-8998
Rockefeller University
9-Nov-2006


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