Casting a long shadow in the classroom: an educator's perspective of the contributions of Carl Woese.

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：:In eukaryotes and viruses that infect them, the 5' end of mRNA molecules, and also many other functionally important RNAs, are modified to form a so-called cap structure that is important for interactions of these RNAs with many nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins. The RNA cap has multiple roles in gene expression, inclu...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Byszewska M,Śmietański M,Purta E,Bujnicki JM

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Riboswitches are cis-encoded, cis-acting RNA elements that directly sense a physiological signal. Signal response results in a change in RNA structure that impacts gene expression. Elements of this type play an important role in bacteria, where they regulate a variety of fundamental cellular pathways. Riboswitch-media...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Smith AM,Fuchs RT,Grundy FJ,Henkin TM

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:MicroRNA (miRs) are short non-coding RNAs that fine-tune the regulation of gene expression to coordinate a wide range of biological processes. MicroRNAs are transcribed from miR genes and primary miR transcripts are processed to approximately 22 nucleotide single strand mature forms that function as repressors of tran...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Desvignes T,Contreras A,Postlethwait JH

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria, like mammals, have to constantly defend themselves from viral attack. Like mammals, they use both innate and adaptive defense mechanisms. In this point of view we highlight the commonalities between defense systems of bacteria and mammals. Our focus is on the recently discovered bacterial adaptive immune sys...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Goren M,Yosef I,Edgar R,Qimron U

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：: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：:Differential mRNA stability is an important mechanism for regulation of virulence factors in Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococcus, GAS), a serious and prevalent human pathogen. We have described 2 Classes of mRNA in GAS that are distinguishable by 1) stability in the stationary phase of growth, 2) kinetics of...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Bugrysheva JV,Scott JR

更新日期：2010-09-01 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 Hedgehog (HH) signaling pathway has important roles in tumorigenesis and in embryonal patterning. The Glioma-associated oncogene 1 (GLI1) is a key molecule in HH signaling, acting as a transcriptional effector and, moreover, is considered to be a potential therapeutic target for several types of cancer. To extend ...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Shimokawa T,Rahman MF,Tostar U,Sonkoly E,Ståhle M,Pivarcsi A,Palaniswamy R,Zaphiropoulos PG

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA helicases contribute to diverse aspects of RNA metabolism through their functions in re-arranging RNA structures. Identification of the remodelling targets of RNA helicases is a critical step in elucidating their cellular functions. Here, we show that, in contrast to many other ribosome biogenesis factors, the DEx...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Choudhury P,Kretschmer J,Hackert P,Bohnsack KE,Bohnsack MT

更新日期：2020-10-13 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：:Post-transcriptional control of gene expression is mediated via RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) that interact with mRNAs in a combinatorial fashion. While recent global RNA interactome capture experiments expanded the repertoire of cellular RBPs quiet dramatically, little is known about the assembly of RBPs on particular ...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Iadevaia V,Wouters MD,Kanitz A,Matia-González AM,Laing EE,Gerber AP

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:Circular RNAs (circRNAs) constitute a large class of RNA species formed by the back-splicing of co-linear exons, often within protein-coding transcripts. Despite much progress in the field, it remains elusive whether the majority of circRNAs are merely aberrant splicing by-products with unknown functions, or their pro...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Ng WL,Marinov GK,Liau ES,Lam YL,Lim YY,Ea CK

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RNase II family of enzymes is ubiquitous and has crucial roles in the processing, degradation and quality control of all types of RNA. These exoribonucleases processively degrade RNA from the 3'-end releasing 5'-nucleotide monophosphates. In prokaryotes, RNase II and RNase R have two N-terminal CSD and one C-termi...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Arraiano CM,Matos RG,Barbas A

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:Skeletal muscle is the dominant executant in locomotion and regulator in energy metabolism. Embryonic myogenesis and postnatal muscle growth are controlled by a cascade of transcription factors and epigenetic regulatory mechanisms. MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a family of non-coding RNA of 22 nucleotides in length, post-transc...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Ma M,Wang X,Chen X,Cai R,Chen F,Dong W,Yang G,Pang W

更新日期：2017-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Prokaryotes immunize themselves against transmissible genetic elements by the integration (acquisition) in clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) loci of spacers homologous to invader nucleic acids, defined as protospacers. Following acquisition, mono-spacer CRISPR RNAs (termed crRNAs) guid...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Díez-Villaseñor C,Guzmán NM,Almendros C,García-Martínez J,Mojica FJ

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：:Studies on the regulation of gene expression in eukaryotes in the past 20 years have consistently revealed increasing levels of complexity. Thirty years ago it seemed that we had understood the basic principles of gene regulation in eukaryotes. It was thought that regulation of transcription was the first and most imp...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Collart MA,Reese JC

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosome biogenesis is an essential process initiated in the nucleolus. In eukaryotes, multiple ribosome biogenesis factors (RBFs) can be found in the nucleolus, the nucleus and in the cytoplasm. They act in processing, folding and modification of the pre-ribosomal (r)RNAs, incorporation of ribosomal proteins (RPs), e...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Palm D,Simm S,Darm K,Weis BL,Ruprecht M,Schleiff E,Scharf C

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:tRNA molecules undergo extensive post-transcriptional processing to generate the mature functional tRNA species that are essential for translation in all organisms. These processing steps include the introduction of numerous specific chemical modifications to nucleotide bases and sugars; among these modifications, met...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Swinehart WE,Jackman JE

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocyte enhancer factor 2c (MEF2C) is the MADS-box type transcription factor involved in the differentiation of cardiac and skeletal muscle and synaptic formation. Alternatively spliced transcripts of the MEF2C gene were proven to encode isoforms which exert distinct functions in transcriptional regulation. During the...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Lin JC

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:With a minimal (250-400 nt), non-protein-coding, circular RNA genome, viroids rely on sequence/structural motifs for replication and colonization of their host plants. These motifs are embedded in a compact secondary structure whose elucidation is crucial to understand how they function. Viroid RNA structure has been ...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： López-Carrasco A,Flores R

更新日期：2017-08-03 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：: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