Ares Swanson MBNL mutant study

MBNL1 is a known splicing factor and is related to Myotonic Dystrophy (DM). This study examines the tissue specific splicing patterns of MBNL1 using a mutant and wild type mouse across three tissues (heart,brain,quadricep) related publications: Aberrant alternative splicing and extracellular matrix gene expression in mouse models of myotonic dystrophy. Du H, etal Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2010 Feb;17(2):187-93. and Muscleblind-like 1 knockout mice reveal novel splicing defects in the myotonic dystrophy brain. Suenaga K, Lee KY, Nakamori M, Tatsumi Y, Takahashi MP, Fujimura H, Jinnai K, Yoshikawa H, Du H, Ares M Jr, Swanson MS, Kimura T. PLoS One. 2012;7(3):e33218. Epub 2012 Mar 13. PMID: 22427994 and Hum Mol Genet. 2006 Jul 1;15(13):2087-97. Failure of MBNL1-dependent post-natal splicing transitions in myotonic dystrophy. Lin X, Miller JW, Mankodi A, Kanadia RN, Yuan Y, Moxley RT, Swanson MS, Thornton CA. We examined quadricep,heart and brain of a mouse MBNL1 mutant to test whether MBNL mutants creates a tissue specific splicing defect. These samples were compared to the tissues of a wild type mouse.