Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Nuclear PTEN safeguards pre-mRNA splicing to link Golgi apparatus for its tumor suppressive role

  • Shao-Ming Shen,
  • Yan Ji,
  • Cheng Zhang,
  • Shuang-Shu Dong,
  • Shuo Yang,
  • Zhong Xiong,
  • Meng-Kai Ge,
  • Yun Yu,
  • Li Xia,
  • Meng Guo,
  • Jin-Ke Cheng,
  • Jun-Ling Liu,
  • Jian-Xiu Yu,
  • Guo-Qiang Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04760-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Cytoplasmic PTEN is a tumor suppressor that antagonises PI3K signalling. Here, the authors show that nuclear PTEN can interact with the spliceosomal proteins and drive pre-mRNA splicing in a phosphatase-independent manner, in particular, PTEN depletion promotes Golgi extension and secretion through GOLGA2 exon skipping.