Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Comprehensive identification of mRNA isoforms reveals the diversity of neural cell-surface molecules with roles in retinal development and disease

  • Thomas A. Ray,
  • Kelly Cochran,
  • Chris Kozlowski,
  • Jingjing Wang,
  • Graham Alexander,
  • Martha A. Cady,
  • William J. Spencer,
  • Philip A. Ruzycki,
  • Brian S. Clark,
  • Annelies Laeremans,
  • Ming-Xiao He,
  • Xiaoming Wang,
  • Emily Park,
  • Ying Hao,
  • Alessandro Iannaccone,
  • Gary Hu,
  • Olivier Fedrigo,
  • Nikolai P. Skiba,
  • Vadim Y. Arshavsky,
  • Jeremy N. Kay

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17009-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Here the authors present an approach that can reveal the full complement of mRNA isoforms encoded by individual genes, and they identify a major isoform of the retinal degeneration gene CRB1 which functions at the cell-cell junctions of the outer limiting membrane to promote photoreceptor survival.