Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Uncoupling of snRNPs from SMA. Recent report.

This paper is now freely available in PubMed Central.

Praveen K, Wen Y, Matera AG. A Drosophila model of spinal muscular atrophy uncouples snRNP biogenesis functions of survival motor neuron from locomotion and viability defects. Cell Rep. 2012 Jun 28;1(6):624-31. PMID: 22813737; PMCID: PMC3405901.

From the abstract: "These findings have major implications for SMA etiology because they show that SMN's role in snRNP biogenesis can be uncoupled from the organismal viability and locomotor defects."

See also this posted paper on splicing & SMA.
Or all blog posts on SMA.

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