Genome-wide evolution of wobble base-pairing nucleotides of branchpoint motifs with increasing organismal complexity.

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：: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：: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：:The instructions to make proteins and structural RNAs are laid down in gene sequences. Yet, in certain instances, these primary instructions need to be modified considerably during gene expression, most often at the transcript level. Here we review a case of massive post-transcriptional revisions via trans-splicing an...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Valach M,Moreira S,Faktorová D,Lukeš J,Burger G

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A very conserved pseudoknot structure has been shown to fold in influenza virus RNA. The pseudoknot encompasses the 3' splice site of segment 8 RNA in both influenza A and B viruses. By sequence comparison of influenza virus strains, we derive a consensus motif that defines a novel RNA pseudoknot family. The orientati...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Gultyaev AP,Olsthoorn RC

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：: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：: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：:The human genome contains some thousands of long non coding RNAs (lncRNAs). Many of these transcripts are presently considered crucial regulators of gene expression and functionally implicated in developmental processes in Eukaryotes. Notably, despite a huge number of lncRNAs are expressed in the Central Nervous Syste...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Bevilacqua V,Gioia U,Di Carlo V,Tortorelli AF,Colombo T,Bozzoni I,Laneve P,Caffarelli E

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are pervasively transcribed and critical regulators of the epigenome[1, 2]. These long, polyadenylated RNAs do not code for proteins, but function directly as RNAs, recruiting chromatin modifiers to mediate transcriptional changes in processes ranging from X-inactivation (XIST) to imprint...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Hung T,Chang HY

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:YchF is one of two universally conserved GTPases with unknown cellular function. As a first step toward elucidating YchF's cellular role, we performed a detailed biochemical characterization of the protein from Escherichia coli. Our data from fluorescence titrations not only confirmed the surprising finding that YchFE...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Becker M,Gzyl KE,Altamirano AM,Vuong A,Urban K,Wieden HJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioma is the most malignant primary brain cancer which frequently occurred in adults. In recent years, long-non coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been demonstrated to play pivotal roles in human cancers. However, the role of most lncRNAs in gliomagenesis has not been probed. Presently, through TCGA, a novel lncRNA LINC01198...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Xie Y,Cheng Y

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two major steps of gene expression are transcription and translation. While hundreds of studies regarding the effect of sequence features on the translation elongation process have been published, very few connect sequence features to the transcription elongation rate. We suggest, for the first time, that short tr...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Cohen E,Zafrir Z,Tuller T

更新日期：2018-01-02 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：: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：:Sin Nombre hantavirus (SNV) is a New World hantavirus and causes hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome. The viral nucleocapsid protein (N) is an RNA chaperone and has multiple functions important in virus replication. The three negative sense RNA segments of hantaviruses form panhandle structures through imperfect hydro...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Brown BA,Panganiban AT

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Viroids are the smallest autonomous infectious nucleic acids known today. They are non-coding, unencapsidated, circular RNAs with sizes ranging from 250 to 400 nucleotides and infect certain plants. These RNAs are transcribed by rolling-circle mechanisms in the plant host's nuclei (Pospiviroidae) or chloroplasts (Avsu...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Hammann C,Steger G

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：: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：: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：:Many splicing regulators bind to their own pre-mRNAs to induce alternative splicing that leads to formation of unstable mRNA isoforms. This provides an autoregulatory feedback mechanism that regulates the cellular homeostasis of these factors. We have described such an autoregulatory mechanism for two core protein com...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Niemelä EH,Verbeeren J,Singha P,Nurmi V,Frilander MJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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 metazoan organisms, alternative splicing is a central mechanism for the regulation of gene expression. However, many questions remain about the underlying molecular mechanisms. Our recent work suggests that U1 snRNP-independent premRNA splicing occurs in humans, which contributes to the regulation of alternative sp...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Fukumura K,Inoue K

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, endogenes are less prone to RNA silencing than transgenes. While both can be efficiently targeted by small RNAs for post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS), generally only transgene PTGS is accompanied by transitivity, RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) and systemic silencing. In order to investigate wh...

journal_title：RNA biology

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

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00