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Defective mRNA in myotonic dystrophy accumulates at the periphery of nuclear splicing speckles.
Genes to cells : devoted to molecular & cellular mechanisms - 1 Sept 2007
Holt Ian, Mittal Saloni, Furling Denis, Butler-Browne Gillian S, Brook J David, Morris Glenn E
Abstract excerpt
Nuclear speckles are storage sites for small nuclear RNPs (snRNPs) and other splicing factors. Current ideas about the role of speckles suggest that some pre-mRNAs are processed at the speckle periphery before being exported as mRNA. In myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), the export of mutant DMPK mRNA is prevented by the presence of expanded CUG repeats that accumulate in nuclear foci. We now show that these foci...
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