Title: Epigenetics in Alternative Pre-mRNA Splicing.
Speaker: Alborz Mazloomian
Centre for High-throughput Biology (CHiBi), University of British Columbia
Abstract

link of the paper: Reini et al., 2012

Abstract

Alternative splicing plays critical roles in differentiation, development, and disease and is a major source for protein diversity in higher eukaryotes. Analysis of alternative splicing regulation has traditionally focused on RNA sequence elements and their associated splicing factors, but recent provocative studies point to a key function of chromatin structure and histone modifications in alternative splicing regulation. These insights suggest that epigenetic regulation determines not only what parts of the genome are expressed but also how they are spliced.