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Microexons, tiny fragments of genes that are just 3-27 nucleotides long, are known to play a ‘tiny but mighty’ role in neuronal cells. Through RNA splicing, microexons sculpt the surfaces of proteins in a highly precise manner, performing microsurgery on the nervous system’s proteins. According to a new study, microexons are also crucial for pancreatic function and regulating blood glucose levels. The microexons are located on more than a hundred genes, including some critical for insulin secretion and type-2 diabetes risk. The researchers believe the discovery could lead to new high-precision treatments for type-2 diabetes, for example by repurposing existing treatments that already exploit RNA splicing mechanisms to treat other types of diseases.<\/p>\n

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Microexons, tiny fragments of genes that are just 3-27 nucleotides long, are known to play a ‘tiny but mighty’ role in neuronal cells. Through RNA splicing, microexons sculpt the surfaces of proteins in a highly precise manner, performing microsurgery on the nervous system’s proteins. According to a new study, microexons are also crucial for pancreatic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[18267,3084,13897,18269,12465,3082,7526,18270,18268],"class_list":["post-27454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-conditions","tag-apostiny","tag-blood","tag-crucial","tag-fragments","tag-gene","tag-glucose","tag-levels","tag-maintaining","tag-mightyapos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}