Objective
Research objectives and content
Various elements have been identified that modulate splice-site selection in alternative splicing events. Among them, pre-mRNA secondary structures have been shown to activate or repress the use of specific splice sites. The b-tropomyosin pre-mRNA has provided an instructive model to study how RNA folding can control alternative splicing site usage. The muscle-specific exon has been shown to be repressed in a non-muscle cell environment by a complex mechanism that involves RNA secondary structure formation. The aim of my project will be to understand the mechanism that induces RNA secondary structure formation and to identify trans-acting factors that allow the switch of the splicing pattern towards the skeletal muscle-specific form during myogenic differentiation.
Training content (objective, benefit and expected impact)
After having studied RNA structure-function relationship in RNA phages, this project will give me the opportunity to study RNA structure-function in more complex organisms.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology virology
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics RNA
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Coordinator
91198 Gif-sur-Yvette
France
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