RNA-based regulation of gene expression in neurodevelopment and disease

Selected Publications

Yap K, Chung TH, Makeyev EV (2022) Hybridization-proximity labeling reveals spatially ordered interactions of nuclear RNA compartments. Mol Cell

Tuvikene J, Esvald EE, Rähni A, Uustalu K, Zhuravskaya A, Avarlaid A, Makeyev EV, Timmusk T (2021) Intronic enhancer region governs transcript-specific Bdnf expression in rodent neurons. Elife

Gordon PM, Hamid F, Makeyev EV, Houart C (2021) A conserved role for the ALS-linked splicing factor SFPQ in repression of pathogenic cryptic last exons. Nat Commun

Ramos SI, Makeyev EV, Salierno M, Kodama T, Kawakami Y, Sahara S (2020) Tuba8 Drives Differentiation of Cortical Radial Glia into Apical Intermediate Progenitors by Tuning Modifications of Tubulin C Termini. Dev Cell

Kainov YA, Makeyev EV (2020) A transcriptome-wide antitermination mechanism sustaining identity of embryonic stem cells. Nat Commun

Makarova M, Peter M, Balogh G, Glatz A, MacRae JI, Lopez Mora N, Booth P, Makeyev E, Vigh L, Oliferenko S (2020) Delineating the Rules for Structural Adaptation of Membrane-Associated Proteins to Evolutionary Changes in Membrane Lipidome. Curr Biol

Yap K, Mukhina S, Zhang G, Tan JSC, Ong HS, Makeyev EV (2018) A Short Tandem Repeat-Enriched RNA Assembles a Nuclear Compartment to Control Alternative Splicing and Promote Cell Survival. Mol Cell

Hamid FM, Makeyev EV (2017) A mechanism underlying position-specific regulation of alternative splicing. Nucleic Acids Res

Verbeeren J, Verma B, Niemelä EH, Yap K, Makeyev EV, Frilander MJ (2017) Alternative exon definition events control the choice between nuclear retention and cytoplasmic export of U11/U12-65K mRNA. PLoS Genet

Collins KM, Kainov YA, Christodolou E, Ray D, Morris Q, Hughes T, Taylor IA, Makeyev EV, Ramos A (2017) An RRM-ZnF RNA recognition module targets RBM10 to exonic sequences to promote exon exclusion. Nucleic Acids Res

Yap K, Xiao Y, Friedman BA, Je HS, Makeyev EV (2016) Polarizing the Neuron through Sustained Co-expression of Alternatively Spliced Isoforms. Cell Rep

Mockenhaupt S, Makeyev EV (2015) Non-coding functions of alternative pre-mRNA splicing in development. Semin Cell Dev Biol

Dai W, Li W, Hoque M, Li Z, Tian B, Makeyev EV (2015) A post-transcriptional mechanism pacing expression of neural genes with precursor cell differentiation status. Nat Commun

Neo WH, Yap K, Lee SH, Looi LS, Khandelia P, Neo SX, Makeyev EV, Su IH (2014) MicroRNA miR-124 controls the choice between neuronal and astrocyte differentiation by fine-tuning Ezh2 expression. J Biol Chem

Jain N, Lim LW, Tan WT, George B, Makeyev E, Thanabalu T (2014) Conditional N-WASP knockout in mouse brain implicates actin cytoskeleton regulation in hydrocephalus pathology. Exp Neurol

Hamid FM, Makeyev EV (2014) Regulation of mRNA abundance by polypyrimidine tract-binding protein-controlled alternate 5' splice site choice. PLoS Genet

Yap K, Makeyev EV (2013) Regulation of gene expression in mammalian nervous system through alternative pre-mRNA splicing coupled with RNA quality control mechanisms. Mol Cell Neurosci

Dai W, Zhang G, Makeyev EV (2012) RNA-binding protein HuR autoregulates its expression by promoting alternative polyadenylation site usage. Nucleic Acids Res

Juvvuna PK, Khandelia P, Lee LM, Makeyev EV (2012) Argonaute identity defines the length of mature mammalian microRNAs. Nucleic Acids Res

Yap K, Lim ZQ, Khandelia P, Friedman B, Makeyev EV (2012) Coordinated regulation of neuronal mRNA steady-state levels through developmentally controlled intron retention. Genes Dev

Khandelia P, Yap K, Makeyev EV (2011) Streamlined platform for short hairpin RNA interference and transgenesis in cultured mammalian cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Makeyev EV, Maniatis T (2008) Multilevel regulation of gene expression by microRNAs. Science

Makeyev EV, Zhang J, Carrasco MA, Maniatis T (2007) The MicroRNA miR-124 promotes neuronal differentiation by triggering brain-specific alternative pre-mRNA splicing. Mol Cell