Over-represented sequences located on 3' UTRs are potentially involved in regulatory functions.

abstract：:tRNA-dependent addition of amino acids to lipids on the outer surface of the bacterial membrane results in decreased effectiveness of antimicrobials such as cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAMPs) that target the membrane, and increased virulence of several pathogenic species. After a brief introduction to CAMPs and t...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Fields RN,Roy H

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At low temperatures the Escherichia coli rpoS mRNA, encoding the stationary phase sigma factor RpoS, forms an intramolecular secondary structure (iss) that impedes translation initiation. Under these conditions the small RNA DsrA, which is stabilzed by Hfq, forms a duplex with rpoS mRNA sequences opposite of the ribos...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Hämmerle H,Večerek B,Resch A,Bläsi U

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) replication triggers post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) and RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) of homologous RNA and DNA sequences, respectively. PTGS predominantly occurs in the cytoplasm, but nuclear PTGS has been also reported. In this study, we investigated w...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Dalakouras A,Dadami E,Bassler A,Zwiebel M,Krczal G,Wassenegger M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viroids are non-coding single-stranded circular RNA molecules that replicate autonomously in infected host plants causing mild to lethal symptoms. Their genomes contain about 250-400 nucleotides, depending on viroid species. Members of the family Pospiviroidae, like the Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd), replicate v...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Brass JR,Owens RA,Matoušek J,Steger G

更新日期：2017-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Seryl-tRNA synthetase (SerRS) catalyzes the ligation of serine to the 3'-end of serine tRNA (tRNA(Ser)), which is typical of the type-2 tRNAs characterized by a long extra arm. The SerRSs are divided into two types, the archaeal/eukaryal and bacterial types. In this study, we solved the crystal structures of the SerRS...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Itoh Y,Sekine S,Kuroishi C,Terada T,Shirouzu M,Kuramitsu S,Yokoyama S

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered expression levels of protein-coding genes and microRNAs have been implicated in the pathogenesis of Huntington's disease (HD). The involvement of other ncRNAs, especially long ncRNAs (lncRNA), is being realized recently and the related knowledge is still rudimentary. Using small RNA sequencing and PCR arrays w...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Chanda K,Das S,Chakraborty J,Bucha S,Maitra A,Chatterjee R,Mukhopadhyay D,Bhattacharyya NP

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonuclease P (RNase P) is a ribonucleoprotein comprised of a catalytic RNA subunit and one or several protein subunits. RNase P is best known for its role in 5'-processing of tRNA precursors. RNase P enzymes from almost all forms of life, including protein-synthesizing organelles, contain an RNase P with a conserved...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Ellis JC,Brown JW

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A-to-I RNA editing by adenosine deaminases acting on RNA is a post-transcriptional modification that is crucial for normal life and development in vertebrates. RNA editing has been shown to be very abundant in the human transcriptome, specifically at the primate-specific Alu elements. The functional role of this wide-...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Liscovitch N,Bazak L,Levanon EY,Chechik G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a mental framework for the transition of self-replicating biological forms, the RNA world concept stipulates a dual function of RNAs as genetic substance and catalyst. The chaperoning function is found intrinsic to ribozymes involved in protein synthesis and tRNA maturation, enriching the primordial RNA world with ...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Son A,Horowitz S,Seong BL

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier we have demonstrated the presence of internal ribosome entry site (IRES) within tumor suppressor p53 mRNA. Here we have mapped the putative secondary structure of p53- IRES RNA using information from chemical probing and nuclease mapping experiments. Additionally, the secondary structure of the IRES element of...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Grover R,Sharathchandra A,Ponnuswamy A,Khan D,Das S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last years, a number of nuclear genes restoring cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) have been cloned in various crop species. The majority of these genes have been shown to encode pentatricopeptide repeat proteins (PPR) that act by specifically suppressing the expression of sterility-causing mitochondrial transcri...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Dahan J,Mireau H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prokaryotic immunity against foreign nucleic acids mediated by clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) depends on the expression of the CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins and the formation of small CRISPR RNAs (crRNAs). The crRNA-loaded Cas ribonucleoprotein complexes convey the specific rec...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Arslan Z,Stratmann T,Wurm R,Wagner R,Schnetz K,Pul Ü

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changing the abundance of transcripts by regulated RNA degradation is a critical step in the control of various biological pathways. Recently, genome-wide inhibitor-free technologies for determining RNA stabilities in mammalian cells have been developed. In these methods, endogenous RNAs are pulse labeled by uridine a...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Tani H,Akimitsu N

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent study revealed that poly(A)-binding protein (PABP) bound to poly(A) RNA exhibits a sharply bent configuration at the linker region between RNA-recognition motif 2 (RRM2) and RRM3, whereas free PABP exhibits a highly flexible linear configuration. However, the physiological role of the bent structure of mRNA-b...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Hong KY,Lee SH,Gu S,Kim E,An S,Kwon J,Lee JB,Jang SK

更新日期：2017-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs are essential for spermatogenesis. However, the stage-specific requirements for particular miRNAs in the male mammalian germ line remain largely uncharacterized. The miR-34 family is, to date, the only miRNA proven to be necessary for the production of sperm in mammals, though its germline roles are poorly u...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Hilz S,Fogarty EA,Modzelewski AJ,Cohen PE,Grimson A

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I am honored to have been asked to contribute to this memorial issue, although I cannot claim to have known Carl Woese well. Carl's insights and the discoveries that his research group made over the years certainly stimulated my own research program, and at several points early on, interactions with him were pivotal i...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Gray MW

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population differences observed for complex traits may be attributed to the combined effect of socioeconomic, environmental, genetic and epigenetic factors. To better understand population differences in complex traits, genome-wide genetic and gene expression differences among ethnic populations have been studied. Her...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Huang RS,Gamazon ER,Ziliak D,Wen Y,Im HK,Zhang W,Wing C,Duan S,Bleibel WK,Cox NJ,Dolan ME

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here an in-depth characterization of the aptamer domain of the transcriptional adenine-sensing riboswitch (pbuE) by NMR and fluorescence spectroscopy. By NMR studies, the structure of two aptamer sequences with different lengths of the helix P1, the central element involved in riboswitch conformational switc...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Nozinovic S,Reining A,Kim YB,Noeske J,Schlepckow K,Wöhnert J,Schwalbe H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymes of the cytosine-5 RNA methyltransferase Trm4/NSun2 family methylate tRNAs at C48 and C49 in multiple tRNAs, as well as C34 and C40 in selected tRNAs. In contrast to most other organisms, fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe carries two Trm4/NSun2 homologs, Trm4a (SPAC17D4.04) and Trm4b (SPAC23C4.17). Here, ...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Müller M,Samel-Pommerencke A,Legrand C,Tuorto F,Lyko F,Ehrenhofer-Murray AE

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II CRISPR-Cas9 systems require a small RNA called the trans-activating CRISPR RNA (tracrRNA) in order to function. The prediction of these non-coding RNAs in prokaryotic genomes is challenging because they have dissimilar structures, having short stems (3-6 bp) and non-canonical base-pairs e.g. G-A. Much of the t...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Chyou TY,Brown CM

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosome biogenesis drives cell growth and proliferation, but mechanisms that modulate this process remain poorly understood. For a long time, small rRNA sequences have been widely treated as non-specific degradation products and neglected as garbage sequences. Recently, we identified a new class of antisense ribosoma...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Zhou X,Chen X,Wang Y,Feng X,Guang S

更新日期：2017-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial small RNAs (sRNAs) are a class of structural RNAs that often regulate mRNA targets via post-transcriptional base pair interactions. We determined features that discriminate functional from non-functional interactions and assessed the influence of these features on genome-wide target predictions. For this pur...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Richter AS,Backofen R

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant structural and mechanistic similarities between the spliceosomal snRNAs and catalytically critical domains of self-splicing group II introns have led to the hypothesis that the spliceosomes and group II introns may be evolutionarily related. We have previously shown that in vitro-transcribed, protein-free ...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Jaladat Y,Zhang B,Mohammadi A,Valadkhan S

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an earlier report two P-transposon insertion alleles of the noncoding hsromega gene, hsromega(05241) and P292 were shown to enhance neurodegeneration caused by expression of ataxin-1 protein with expanded poly-Q in a Drosophila model. In present study, we examined the possible relation between hsromega gene express...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Sengupta S,Lakhotia SC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small noncoding RNAs about 22-nucleotide (nt) in length that collectively regulate more than 60% of coding genes. Aberrant miRNA expression is associated with numerous diseases, including cancer. miRNA biogenesis is licenced by the ribonuclease (RNase) III enzyme Drosha, the regulatio...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Dai L,Hallmark L,Bofill De Ros X,Crouch H,Chen S,Shi T,Yang A,Lian C,Zhao Y,Tran B,Gu S

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endoribonuclease toxins of the E. coli toxin-antitoxin systems arrest bacterial growth and protein synthesis by targeting cellular mRNAs. As an exception, E. coli MazF was reported to cleave also 16S rRNA at a single site and separate an anti-Shine-Dalgarno sequence-containing RNA fragment from the ribosome. We no...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Mets T,Lippus M,Schryer D,Liiv A,Kasari V,Paier A,Maiväli Ü,Remme J,Tenson T,Kaldalu N

更新日期：2017-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) is a powerful tool for gene functional analysis of plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs). RNAi involving soaking in a dsRNA solution and in planta methods is commonly applied in the study of gene function in PPNs. However, certain problems restrict the application of these methods. Therefore, more c...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Ding S,Wang D,Xu C,Yang S,Cheng X,Peng X,Chen C,Xie H

更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA methylation, catalysed by a set of RNA methyltransferases (RNMTs), modulates RNA structures, properties, and biological functions. RNMTs are increasingly documented to be dysregulated in various human diseases, particularly developmental disorders and cancer. However, the genomic and transcriptomic alterations of ...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Manning M,Jiang Y,Wang R,Liu L,Rode S,Bonahoom M,Kim S,Yang ZQ

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-coding roX1 and roX2 RNAs are components of the MSL dosage compensation complex in Drosophila. We found that multiple species of roX2 RNA are produced by alternative splicing, with one major and at least 20 different minor forms associated with MSL proteins. The alternative forms are generated by variable usag...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Park Y,Oh H,Meller VH,Kuroda MI

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tight gene expression regulation controls the development and pathogenesis of human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum throughout the complex life cycle. Recent studies have revealed the pervasive nascent transcripts in the genome of P. falciparum, suggesting the existence of a hidden transcriptome involved in...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Yin S,Fan Y,He X,Wei G,Wen Y,Zhao Y,Shi M,Wei J,Chen H,Han J,Jiang L,Zhang Q

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00