Craving for Introns

Parenteau et al. (2019) Parenteau J. Maignon L. Berthoumieux M. Catala M. Gagnon V. Abou Elela S. Introns are mediators of cell response to starvation. Nature. 2019; 565 : 612-617 Crossref PubMed Scopus (1) Google Scholar and Morgan et al. (2019) Morgan J.T. Fink G.R. Bartel D.P. Excised linear introns regulate growth in yeast. Nature. 2019; 565 : 606-611 Crossref PubMed Scopus (1) Google Scholar showed that a subset of introns can work as non-coding RNAs that trap the spliceosome and decrease global splicing upon nutrient depletion in yeast, providing a new example of the functionality of introns, molecules that were previously assumed to be useless