MBNL1 regulates essential alternative RNA splicing patterns in MLL-rearranged leukemia

The alternative splicing regulator MBNL1 is overexpressed in MLL-rearranged leukaemia. Here, the authors show that MBNL1-mediated alternative splicing leads to a specific splicing profile in MLL-rearranged leukaemia and loss or inhibition of MBNL1 impairs leukaemia development in vitro and in vivo.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Svetlana S. Itskovich, Arun Gurunathan, Jason Clark, Matthew Burwinkel, Mark Wunderlich, Mikaela R. Berger, Aishwarya Kulkarni, Kashish Chetal, Meenakshi Venkatasubramanian, Nathan Salomonis, Ashish R. Kumar, Lynn H. Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15733-8