The cryptic unstable transcripts are associated with developmentally regulated gene expression in blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum.

abstract：:The duck represents an important reservoir of influenza viruses for transmission to other avian and mammalian hosts, including humans. The increased pathogenicity of the recently emerging clades of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses of the H5N1 subtype in ducks features systemic viral spread and organ-to...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Samir M,Vidal RO,Abdallah F,Capece V,Seehusen F,Geffers R,Hussein A,Ali AAH,Bonn S,Pessler F

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：: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 innate immune system is the frontline host protection against pathogens. Effective antiviral immunity is elicited upon recognition of viral RNAs by the host pattern recognition receptors. One of the major viral RNA sensors is retinoic acid inducible gene-1, which triggers the production of interferons (IFNs). In t...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Kuo YP,Ma CP,Chen HW,Chen YT,Lai YH,Liu H,Kuo RL,Chin-Ming Tan B

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amplification or overexpression of neuronal MYC (MYCN) is associated with poor prognosis of human neuroblastoma. Three isoforms of the MYCN protein have been described as well as a protein encoded by an antisense transcript (MYCNOS) that originates from the opposite strand at the MYCN locus. Recent findings suggest th...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Vadie N,Saayman S,Lenox A,Ackley A,Clemson M,Burdach J,Hart J,Vogt PK,Morris KV

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Selenoproteins are a unique class of proteins that contain the 21st amino acid, selenocysteine (Sec). Addition of Sec into a protein is achieved by recoding of the UGA stop codon. All 25 mammalian selenoprotein mRNAs possess a 3' UTR stem-loop structure, the Selenocysteine Insertion Sequence (SECIS), which is required...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Cockman EM,Narayan V,Willard B,Shetty SP,Copeland PR,Driscoll DM

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional regulation of microRNA (miRNA) expression is one of the least understood aspects of miRNA biogenesis. In C. elegans the list of miRNAs whose transcriptional control has been described in some detail is currently limited to four: let-7, lin-4, lsy-6, and mir-61. Each of these genes has been shown experi...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Turner MJ,Slack FJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:tmRNA employs both tRNA-like and mRNA-like properties as it rescues stalled bacterial ribosomes, while targeting the defective mRNA and incomplete nascent protein for degradation. We describe variation of the tmRNA gene (ssrA) and how it informs tmRNA structure and function. Endosymbiont tmRNAs tend to lose secondary ...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Mao C,Bhardwaj K,Sharkady SM,Fish RI,Driscoll T,Wower J,Zwieb C,Sobral BW,Williams KP

更新日期：2009-09-01 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 PDCD1 gene encodes PD-1, an important immune checkpoint protein and key immunotherapy target to treat cancer. PDCD1 is alternatively spliced to generate an exon 3-skipped isoform PD-1Δ3 that has been suggested to play an antagonistic role to PD-1, but the mechanism underlying alternative splicing of PDCD1 has neve...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Sun J,Bai J,Jiang T,Gao Y,Hua Y

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：: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：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are ubiquitous regulators of gene expression that contribute to almost any cellular process. Methods for managing of miRNA activity are attracting increasing attention in relation to diverse experimental and therapeutic applications. DNA-encoded miRNA inhibitors expressed from plasmid or virus-based...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Hollensen AK,Bak RO,Haslund D,Mikkelsen JG

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:The development of rigorous molecular taxonomy pioneered by Carl Woese has freed evolution science to explore numerous cellular activities that lead to genome change in evolution. These activities include symbiogenesis, inter- and intracellular horizontal DNA transfer, incorporation of DNA from infectious agents, and ...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Shapiro JA

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：:Single-stranded oligonucleotides (ssOligos) are efficiently taken up by living cells without the use of transfection reagents. This phenomenon called 'gymnosis' enables the sequence-specific silencing of target genes in various types of cells. Several antisense ssOligos are used for the treatment of human diseases. Ho...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Takahashi M,Contu VR,Kabuta C,Hase K,Fujiwara Y,Wada K,Kabuta T

更新日期：2017-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical modification of nucleobases plays an important role for the control of gene expression on different levels. That includes the modulation of translation by modified tRNA-bases or silencing and reactivation of genes by methylation and demethylation of cytosine in promoter regions. Especially dynamic methylation...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Traube FR,Carell T

更新日期：2017-09-02 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 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：: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：:The GIR1 branching ribozyme constitutes a separate class of naturally occurring ribozymes. Most studies have been performed with the single GIR1 known from the myxomycete Didymium iridis whereas the large number of GIR1s found in the amoeboflagellate Naegleria has remained largely uncharacterized. Here, we investigate...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Tang Y,Nielsen H,Birgisdottir AB,Johansen S

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We had previously proposed that the post-transcriptional regulation through microRNA as a mechanism for incomplete penetrance and variable expressivity, leads to lack of correlation between genotype and phenotype. Here we report the validation of miRNA-target interactions we predicted earlier and demonstrate the regul...

journal_title：RNA biology

authors： Ahluwalia JK,Soni K,Sivasubbu S,Brahmachari V

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00