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@ARTICLE{BaezaCenturin:304271,
author = {P. Baeza-Centurión$^*$ and B. Miñana and A. J. Faure and
M. Thompson and S. Bonnal and G. Quarantani and J. Clarke
and B. Lehner and J. Valcárcel},
title = {{D}eep indel mutagenesis reveals the regulatory and
modulatory architecture of alternative exon splicing.},
journal = {Nature Communications},
volume = {16},
number = {1},
issn = {2041-1723},
address = {[London]},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
reportid = {DKFZ-2025-01812},
pages = {8117},
year = {2025},
note = {Pablo Baeza-Centurión},
abstract = {While altered pre-mRNA splicing is a frequent mechanism by
which genetic variants cause disease, the regulatory
architecture of human exons remains poorly understood.
Antisense oligonucleotides (AONs) that target pre-mRNA
splicing have been approved as therapeutics for various
pathologies including patient-customised treatments for rare
diseases, but AON discovery is currently slow and expensive,
limiting the wider adoption of the approach. Here we show
that deep indel mutagenesis (DIM) -which can be made
experimentally at very low cost - provides an efficient
strategy to chart the regulatory landscape of human exons
and rapidly identify candidate splicing-modulating
oligonucleotides. DIM reveals autonomous effects of
insertions, while systematic deletion scans delineate the
checkerboard architecture of sequential enhancers and
silencers in a model alternative exon. The results also
suggest a mechanism for repression of transmembrane
domain-encoding exons and for the generation of microexons.
Leveraging deep learning tools, we provide a resource,
DANGO, that predicts the splicing regulatory landscape of
all human exons and can help to identify effective
splicing-modulating antisense oligonucleotides.},
keywords = {Exons: genetics / Humans / Alternative Splicing: genetics /
INDEL Mutation: genetics / Oligonucleotides, Antisense:
genetics / Mutagenesis / Deep Learning / RNA Precursors:
genetics / Oligonucleotides, Antisense (NLM Chemicals) / RNA
Precursors (NLM Chemicals)},
cin = {W510},
ddc = {500},
cid = {I:(DE-He78)W510-20160331},
pnm = {319H - Addenda (POF4-319H)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-319H},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:40885722},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-025-62957-7},
url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/304271},
}