SPArking Interest in the Long Noncoding RNA World: A New Class of 5′ SnoRNA-Stabilized LncRNA that Influences Alternative Splicing.

Delving deeply into the locus deleted in Prader-Willi syndrome, in this issue of Molecular Cell , Wu et al. (2016) identify SPA RNAs, a new class of 5′ snoRNA-capped lncRNAs that sequester RNA binding proteins and influence alternative splicing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]