RNAmotifs: prediction of multivalent RNA motifs that control alternative splicing
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Matteo Cereda Uberto Pozzoli Gregor Rot Peter Juvan Anthony Schweitzer Tyson Clark Jernej UleAbstract
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) regulate splicing according to position-dependent principles, which can be exploited for analysis of regulatory motifs. Here we present RNAmotifs, a method that evaluates the sequence around differentially regulated alternative exons to identify clusters of short and degenerate sequences, referred to as multivalent RNA motifs. We show that diverse RBPs share basic positional principles, but differ in their propensity to enhance or repress exon inclusion. We assess exons differentially spliced between brain and heart, identifying known and new regulatory motifs, and predict the expression pattern of RBPs that bind these motifs. RNAmotifs is available at https://bitbucket.org/rogrro/rna_motifs.
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Publisher website (DOI) 10.1186/gb-2014-15-1-r20
Europe PubMed Central 24485098
Pubmed 24485098
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