Review
Nature Reviews Immunology 4, 931-940 (December 2004) | doi:10.1038/nri1497
Consequences of regulated pre-mRNA splicing in the immune system
Kristen W. Lynch1 About the author
Abstract
Alternative splicing is widely recognized to be a ubiquitous and crucial mechanism for generating protein diversity and regulating protein expression. Numerous immunologically relevant genes have been found to undergo alternative splicing; however, there has been little effort to develop a coherent picture of how alternative splicing might be used as a general mechanism to regulate the function of the immune system. In this review, I summarize the mechanisms by which splicing is controlled in T cells, and discuss the role of alternative splicing and alternative isoform expression in the regulation of T-cell activation and function.
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Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 5323 Harry Hines boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390-9038, USA.
Email: klynch@biochem.swmed.edu
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