bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.18.444719; this version posted May 18, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. The Global Protein-RNA Interaction map of Epithelial Splicing Regulatory Protein 1 defines a post- transcriptional program that is essential for epithelial cell function Natoya J. Peart1, Jae Yeon Hwang2, Mathieu Quesnel- Vallières3, 4, Matthew J. Sears1, Yuequin Yang3, Peter Stoilov5, Yoseph Barash3, 4, Juw Won Park2, 6, Russ P. Carstens1, 3, * Departments of Medicine1, Genetics3 and Biochemistry and Biophysics4, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, USA Department of Computer Science and Engineering2, KY INBRE Bioinformatics Core6, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Institute5, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 26506, USA. *Author for correspondence and lead contact:
[email protected] Total Word Count: [6724] Total Character Count: [43993] Keywords: alternative splicing, eCLIP, RNA Map, ESRP1, 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.18.444719; this version posted May 18, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Summary The epithelial splicing regulatory proteins, ESRP1 and ESRP2 are essential for mammalian development through regulation of a global program of alternative splicing of genes involved in maintenance of epithelial cell function.