Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Widespread transcript shortening through alternative polyadenylation in secretory cell differentiation

  • Larry C. Cheng,
  • Dinghai Zheng,
  • Erdene Baljinnyam,
  • Fangzheng Sun,
  • Koichi Ogami,
  • Percy Luk Yeung,
  • Mainul Hoque,
  • Chi-Wei Lu,
  • James L. Manley,
  • Bin Tian

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16959-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Alternative polyadenylation generates multiple mRNA isoforms with different 3′ UTR sizes. Here the authors report global 3′ UTR shortening that is coupled to increased expression of secretory pathway genes in secretory cell differentiation.