Splicing of an intervening sequence by protein-free human snRNAs.

abstract：:Previous mRNA transcriptome studies of Euglena gracilis have shown that this organism possesses a large and diverse complement of protein coding genes; however, the study of non-coding RNA classes has been limited. The natural extensive fragmentation of the E. gracilis large subunit ribosomal RNA presents additional b...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Moore AN,McWatters DC,Hudson AJ,Russell AG

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:Amphioxus is the closest living proxy for exploring the evolutionary origin of the immune system in vertebrates. To understand the immune responses of amphioxus to lipopolysaccharide (LPS), 5 ribosomal RNA (rRNA)-depleted libraries of amphioxus were constructed, including one control (0 h) library and 4 treatment libr...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Zhang QL,Zhu QH,Xie ZQ,Xu B,Wang XQ,Chen JY

更新日期：2017-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was the first human cancer-causing virus to be discovered over fifty years ago. Given its relatively large genome size for a virus and hence the capacity to store more than mere protein-coding information, EBV also harbours genetic material for producing an array of distinct noncoding (nc)RNAs...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Lee N

更新日期：2021-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The RIG-I-like receptors (RLRs)--RIG-I, MDA5, and LGP2--detect intracellular pathogenic RNA and elicit an antiviral immune response during viral infection. The protein architecture of the RLR family consists of multiple functional domains, including N-terminal Caspase Activation and Recruitment Domains (CARDs) for sig...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Luo D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two different isolates of the myxomycete Didymium iridis harbour homing endonuclease genes that are expressed from group I introns inserted into identical sites within the small subunit ribosomal DNA. The homing endonuclease proteins are related in sequence, and their gene structures share similar features such as the...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Johansen SD,Vader A,Sjøttem E,Nielsen H

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translation begins at AUG, GUG, or UUG codons in bacteria. Start codon recognition occurs in the P site, which may help explain this first-position degeneracy. However, the molecular basis of start codon specificity remains unclear. In this study, we measured the codon dependence of 30S•mRNA•tRNAfMet and 30S•mRNA•tRNA...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Roy B,Liu Q,Shoji S,Fredrick K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) causes anovulatory infertility in women of reproductive age, but etiopathogenesis of PCOS remains undetermined. Taurine up-regulated 1 (TUG1), an evolutionarily conserved long non-coding RNA, performs various biological functions; however, the role of TUG1 in PCOS remains unclear. Here...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Li Y,Zhang J,Liu YD,Zhou XY,Chen X,Zhe J,Zhang QY,Zhang XF,Chen YX,Wang Z,Chen SL

更新日期：2020-12-01 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 quaking viable (qk(v)) mice have attracted attention because of their characteristic tremor caused by their dysmyelination. In the central nervous system, qk(v) mice fail to develop mature myelinating oligodendrocytes and display uncompacted myelin. The genetic defect in the qk(v) mice prevents the proper expressi...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Larocque D,Richard S

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：: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：:Telomeres, protective nucleoprotein structures located at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes and until recently regarded as transcriptionally silent, are now known to be transcribed into non-coding RNA molecules called TERRA. The function(s) of TERRA in telomere metabolism is now the subject of intense study given the...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Caslini C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription termination delineates the 3' ends of transcripts, prevents otherwise runaway RNA polymerase (RNAP) from intruding into downstream genes and regulatory elements, and enables release of the RNAP for recycling. While other eukaryotic RNAPs require complex cis-signals and/or accessory factors to achieve the...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Arimbasseri AG,Maraia RJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：: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：:The muscle specific miRNA, miR-206, is important for the process of myogenesis; however, studying the function of miR-206 in muscle development and differentiation still proves challenging because the complement of mRNA targets it regulates remains undefined. In addition, miR-206 shares close sequence similarity to mi...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Salant GM,Tat KL,Goodrich JA,Kugel JF

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:microRNAs (miRNAs) are critical regulators of gene expression. For elucidating functional roles of miRNAs, it is critical to identify their direct targets. There are debates about whether pulldown of biotinylated miRNA mimics can be used to identify miRNA targets or not. Here we show that biotin-labelled miR-34a can b...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Awan HM,Shah A,Rashid F,Wei S,Chen L,Shan G

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper base-pairing of a miRNA with its target mRNA is a key step in miRNA-mediated mRNA repression. RNA remodelling by RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) can improve access of miRNAs to their target mRNAs. The largest isoform p45 of the RBP AUF1 has previously been shown to remodel viral or AU-rich RNA elements. Here, we sh...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Sänger L,Bender J,Rostowski K,Golbik R,Lilie H,Schmidt C,Behrens SE,Friedrich S

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:U12-type introns are a rare class of nuclear introns that are removed by a dedicated U12-dependent spliceosome and are thought to regulate the expression of their target genes owing through their slower splicing reaction. Recent genome-wide studies on the splicing of U12-type introns are now providing new insights on ...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Niemelä EH,Frilander MJ

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：:Trans-activating CRISPR (tracr) RNA is a distinct RNA species that interacts with the CRISPR (cr) RNA to form the dual guide (g) RNA in type II and subtype V-B CRISPR-Cas systems. The tracrRNA-crRNA interaction is essential for pre-crRNA processing as well as target recognition and cleavage. The tracrRNA consists of a...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Faure G,Shmakov SA,Makarova KS,Wolf YI,Crawley AB,Barrangou R,Koonin EV

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between glioma cells and their local environment are critical determinants of brain tumor growth, infiltration and neovascularisation. Communication with host cells and stroma via microvesicles represents one pathway by which tumors can modify their surroundings to achieve a tumor-permissive environment. ...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Li CC,Eaton SA,Young PE,Lee M,Shuttleworth R,Humphreys DT,Grau GE,Combes V,Bebawy M,Gong J,Brammah S,Buckland ME,Suter CM

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) is a RNA surveillance pathway that degrades subsets of normal and aberrant mRNAs. Mutations that perturb NMD cause neurological disorders in humans, suggesting that NMD has roles in the brain. Recently, it was shown that NMD is repressed during neural development to allow for the stabiliz...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Karam R,Wilkinson M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contributions of dietary miRNAs to circulating small RNA profiles would have profound implications for interpretation of miRNA biomarker studies: presumptive disease-specific markers might instead indicate responses to disease-associated quantitative or qualitative dietary alteration. This examination weighs the evide...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Witwer KW

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immaculate annotation of all microRNAs (miRNAs) is a prerequisite to study their biological function on a genome-wide scale. However, the original criteria for proper miRNA annotation seem unsuited for the automated analysis of the immense number of small RNA reads available in next generation sequencing (NGS) dat...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Hansen TB,Kjems J,Bramsen JB

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：:Alternative splicing (AS) of pre-messenger RNAs is a major process contributing to both transcriptome and proteome diversity in various physiological and pathological situations. There is also accumulating evidence that various stresses impact on AS. In particular, recent analyses of the transcriptome reveal large num...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Dutertre M,Sanchez G,Barbier J,Corcos L,Auboeuf D

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:The endoribonuclease RNase-L requires 2',5'-linked oligoadenylates for activation, and mediates antiviral and antiproliferative activities. We previously determined that RNase-L activation induces senescence; to determine potential mechanisms underlying this activity, we used microarrays to identify RNase-L-regulated ...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Andersen JB,Mazan-Mamczarz K,Zhan M,Gorospe M,Hassel BA

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00