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Overview

Gil Ast is a researcher affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel, specializing in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work focuses extensively on Molecular Biology, with a particular emphasis on RNA research and splicing mechanisms.

The scientist's research covers several interconnected topics, including:

  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms
  • RNA Modifications and Cancer
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics

Gil Ast has contributed to multiple research papers published in prominent scientific venues. These include:

  • Gene architecture directs splicing outcome in separate nuclear spatial regions, 2022, Molecular Cell
  • The upstream 5' splice site remains associated to the transcription machinery during intron synthesis, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Human histone H1 variants impact splicing outcome by controlling RNA polymerase II elongation, 2023, Molecular Cell

The frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Molecular Cell
  • Nature Communications

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their research practice. Their most frequent co-authors include:

  • Luna Tammer
  • Ofir Hameiri
  • Ifat Keydar
  • Vanessa Rachel Roy
  • Ronna Shayevitch

Best Publications

  • Alternative splicing and evolution: diversification, exon definition and function.

    Hadas Keren;Galit Lev-Maor;Gil Ast

  • How did alternative splicing evolve

    Gil Ast

  • Chromatin organization marks exon-intron structure.

    Schraga Schwartz;Eran Meshorer;Gil Ast

  • Different levels of alternative splicing among eukaryotes

    Eddo Kim;Alon Magen;Gil Ast

  • Alu-containing exons are alternatively spliced

    Rotem Sorek;Gil Ast;Dan Graur

  • The alternative role of DNA methylation in splicing regulation

    Galit Lev Maor;Ahuvi Yearim;Gil Ast

  • The Birth of an Alternatively Spliced Exon: 3' Splice-Site Selection in Alu Exons

    Galit Lev-Maor;Rotem Sorek;Noam Shomron;Gil Ast

  • How prevalent is functional alternative splicing in the human genome

    Rotem Sorek;Ron Shamir;Gil Ast

  • Regulation of Alternative Splicing Through Coupling with Transcription and Chromatin Structure

    Shiran Naftelberg;Ignacio E. Schor;Gil Ast;Alberto R. Kornblihtt

  • Comparative Analysis Identifies Exonic Splicing Regulatory Sequences—The Complex Definition of Enhancers and Silencers

    Amir Goren;Oren Ram;Maayan Amit;Hadas Keren

  • Differential GC content between exons and introns establishes distinct strategies of splice-site recognition.

    Maayan Amit;Maya Donyo;Dror Hollander;Amir Goren

  • Intronic Sequences Flanking Alternatively Spliced Exons Are Conserved Between Human and Mouse

    Rotem Sorek;Gil Ast

  • Alternative splicing: current perspectives.

    Eddo Kim;Amir Goren;Gil Ast

  • Position-dependent alternative splicing activity revealed by global profiling of alternative splicing events regulated by PTB

    Miriam Llorian;Schraga Schwartz;Tyson A Clark;Dror Hollander

  • Comparative analysis of transposed element insertion within human and mouse genomes reveals Alu's unique role in shaping the human transcriptome.

    Noa Sela;Britta Mersch;Nurit Gal-Mark;Galit Lev-Maor

  • Comparative analysis detects dependencies among the 5′ splice-site positions

    Ido Carmel;Saar Tal;Ida Vig;Gil Ast

  • Comparative analysis of transposed element insertion within human and mouse genomes reveals Alu's unique role in shaping the human transcriptome

    Noa Sela;Britta Mersch;Nurit Gal-Mark;Galit Lev-Maor

  • DNA-methylation effect on cotranscriptional splicing is dependent on GC architecture of the exon–intron structure

    Sahar Gelfman;Noa Cohen;Ahuvi Yearim;Gil Ast

  • Large-scale comparative analysis of splicing signals and their corresponding splicing factors in eukaryotes

    Schraga H Schwartz;João Silva;David Burstein;Tal Pupko

  • Alternative splicing and disease.

    Eddo Kim;Amir Goren;Gil Ast

Frequent Co-Authors

Schraga Schwartz
Schraga Schwartz Weizmann Institute of Science
Noam Shomron
Noam Shomron Tel Aviv University
Rotem Sorek
Rotem Sorek Weizmann Institute of Science
Tal Pupko
Tal Pupko Tel Aviv University
Erez Y. Levanon
Erez Y. Levanon Bar-Ilan University
Eran Meshorer
Eran Meshorer Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dan Graur
Dan Graur University of Houston
Roded Sharan
Roded Sharan Tel Aviv University
David E. Burstein
David E. Burstein Tel Aviv University
Alan M. Weiner
Alan M. Weiner University of Washington

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