Cleavage factor Im is a key regulator of 3' UTR length.

abstract：:"What does one do when the giants pass away?" remarked a very famous microbiologist to me, soon after the death of Carl Woese in late 2012. I teach microbiology and introductory cell and molecular biology at a small undergraduate institution; Woese's example and contributions have long been part of every class I teach...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Martin M

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Circular RNAs (circRNAs) have been identified in diverse eukaryotic species and are characterized by RNA backsplicing events. Current available methods for circRNA identification are able to determine the start and end locations of circRNAs in the genome but not their full-length sequences. In this study, we developed...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Ye CY,Zhang X,Chu Q,Liu C,Yu Y,Jiang W,Zhu QH,Fan L,Guo L

更新日期：2017-08-03 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：:We previously showed that miR-122 was frequently downregulated in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and C/EBPα transactivated miR-122 expression. In this study, we found that Sp1 bound to the miR-122 promoter at two different sites. Interestingly, either inhibition or overexpression of Sp1 could decrease the miR-122 prom...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Zeng C,Sang Y,Wang FY,Zhuang SM

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquisition of antibiotic resistance by human pathogens poses a significant threat to public health. The mechanisms that control the proliferation and expression of antibiotic resistance genes are not yet completely understood. The aminoglycosides are a historically important class of antibiotics that were introdu...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： He W,Zhang X,Zhang J,Jia X,Zhang J,Sun W,Jiang H,Chen D,Murchie AI

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All organisms must keep their DNA intact and free of lesions to obtain faithful transmission of genetic information, and many cellular proteins are involved in genome maintenance. However, also other macromolecules may be subject to repair. Deleterious lesions in proteins can be reversed by several mechanisms, and thi...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Falnes PØ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of how cysteinyl-tRNA(Cys) is synthesized in organisms that lack a canonical cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase (CysRS) is an important open question in understanding protein synthesis. The prolyl-tRNA synthetase (ProRS) of wide ranging organisms has the ability to mis-activate cysteine without editing. This raise...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Zhang CM,Hou YM

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical entanglement, and particularly knots arise spontaneously in equilibrated polymers that are sufficiently long and densely packed. Biopolymers are no exceptions: knots have long been known to occur in proteins as well as in encapsidated viral DNA. The rapidly growing number of RNA structures has recently made i...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Burton AS,Di Stefano M,Lehman N,Orland H,Micheletti C

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Termination of RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) transcription is a fundamental step of gene expression that involves the release of the nascent transcript and dissociation of RNAPII from the DNA template. As transcription termination is intimately linked to RNA 3' end processing, termination pathways have a key decisive inf...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Lemay JF,Bachand F

更新日期：2015-01-01 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 a series of conceptual articles published around the millennium, Carl Woese emphasized that evolution of cells is the central problem of evolutionary biology, that the three-domain ribosomal tree of life is an essential framework for reconstructing cellular evolution, and that the evolutionary dynamics of functiona...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Koonin EV

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review emphasizes the function and regulation of the Csr regulatory system in the human enteropathogen Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and compares its features with the homologous Csr/Rsm systems of related pathogens. The Csr/Rsm systems of eubacteria form a complex regulatory network in which redundant non-translat...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Heroven AK,Böhme K,Dersch P

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：: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：:The signal recognition particle (SRP) is a ribonucleoprotein complex which participates in the targeting of protein to cellular membranes. The RNA component of the SRP has been found in all domains of life, but the size of the molecule and the number of RNA secondary structure elements vary considerably between the di...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Rosenblad MA,Larsen N,Samuelsson T,Zwieb C

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, the genic disequilibrium between males (XY) and females (XX) is resolved through the inactivation of one of the X-chromosomes in females. X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) takes place in all mammalian species, but has mainly been studied in the mouse model where it was shown to be controlled by the interplay...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Vallot C,Rougeulle C

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are key regulators of gene expression and play critical roles in modulating metabolism, development and physiology in animals and plants. miRNA levels are transcriptionally and post-transcriptionally controlled for their proper function. Recent studies have shown that RNA-binding proteins play impor...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Ren G,Yu B

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the many important consequences that temperature down-shift has on cells is stabilization of secondary structures of RNAs. This stabilization has wide-spread effects, such as inhibition of expression of several genes due to termination of their transcription and inefficient RNA degradation that adversely affect...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Phadtare S,Severinov K

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:RNase J is a prokaryotic 5'-3' exo/endoribonuclease that functions in mRNA decay and rRNA maturation. Here, we report a novel duplex unwinding activity of mpy-RNase J, an archaeal RNase J from Methanolobus psychrophilus, which enables it to degrade duplex RNAs with hairpins up to 40 bp when linking a 5' single-strande...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Li J,Hou Y,Gu X,Yue L,Guo L,Li D,Dong X

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs are small RNAs that post-transcriptionally regulate eukaryotic gene expression. In addition to their involvement in a wide range of physiological and pathological processes, including viral infections, microRNAs are increasingly implicated in the eukaryotic response to bacterial pathogens. Recent studies hav...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Eulalio A,Schulte L,Vogel J

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of telomere function for human health is exemplified by a collection of Mendelian disorders referred to as the telomere biology disorders (TBDs), telomeropathies, or syndromes of telomere shortening. Collectively, the TBDs cover a spectrum of conditions from multisystem disease presenting in infancy to ...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Bertuch AA

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromatoid body is a large perinuclear ribonucleoprotein particle of germ cells. The chromatoid body is also present in stem cells from planarians. This particle shares markers specific to protein aggresomes and P-bodies, and concentrate several RNA pathways. The assembly mechanism of chromatoid bodies is unknown,...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Roucou X

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of most prokaryotes gives rise to surprisingly complex transcriptomes, comprising not only protein-coding mRNAs, often organized as operons, but also harbors dozens or even hundreds of highly structured small regulatory RNAs and unexpectedly large levels of anti-sense transcripts. Comprehensive surveys of p...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Backofen R,Amman F,Costa F,Findeiß S,Richter AS,Stadler PF

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genuine La and La-related proteins group 7 (LARP7) bind to the non-coding RNAs transcribed by RNA polymerase III (RNAPIII), which end in UUU-3'OH. The La motif and RRM1 of these proteins (the La module) cooperate to bind the UUU-3'OH, protecting the RNA from degradation, while other domains may be important for RNA fo...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Singh M,Choi CP,Feigon J

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in genes that encode tRNAs, aminoacyl-tRNA syntheases, tRNA modifying enzymes and other tRNA interacting partners are associated with neuropathies, cancer, type-II diabetes and hearing loss, but how these mutations cause disease is unclear. We have hypothesized that levels of tRNA decoding error (mistranslat...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Reverendo M,Soares AR,Pereira PM,Carreto L,Ferreira V,Gatti E,Pierre P,Moura GR,Santos MA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of protein synthesis is an essential step of gene expression. This process is under the control of cis-acting RNA elements and trans-acting factors. Gemin5 is a multifunctional RNA-binding protein organized in distinct domains. The protein bears a non-canonical RNA-binding site, designated RBS1, at the C-te...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Francisco-Velilla R,Embarc-Buh A,Rangel-Guerrero S,Basu S,Kundu S,Martinez-Salas E

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs are small, non-coding RNAs that are increasingly appreciated to play critical roles in the modulation of gene expression. In mammalian cells, our knowledge regarding the full impact of microRNAs on cellular behavior remains fragmentary. This has been due, in significant part, to the limited availability of e...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Valastyan S,Weinberg RA

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High concentrations (> 100 µM) of the ribonucleoside analog 4-thiouridine (4sU) is widely used in methods for RNA analysis like photoactivatable-ribonucleoside-enhanced crosslinking and immunoprecipitation (PAR-CLIP) and nascent messenger (m)RNA labeling (4sU-tagging). Here, we show that 4sU-tagging at low concentrati...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Burger K,Mühl B,Kellner M,Rohrmoser M,Gruber-Eber A,Windhager L,Friedel CC,Dölken L,Eick D

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00