Mechanisms of lncRNA biogenesis as revealed by nascent transcriptomics

T Nojima, NJ Proudfoot - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2022 - nature.com
Mammalian genomes express two principal gene categories through RNA polymerase II-
mediated transcription: protein-coding transcription units and non-coding RNA transcription …

[HTML][HTML] Properties and behavior of carbon nanomaterials when interfacing neuronal cells: How far have we come?

R Rauti, M Musto, S Bosi, M Prato, L Ballerini - Carbon, 2019 - Elsevier
In the last two decades, an increasing amount of studies have investigated the use of
components based on carbon-(nano) materials in the engineering of neural interfaces, to …

TERRA and RAD51AP1 promote alternative lengthening of telomeres through an R-to D-loop switch

T Yadav, JM Zhang, J Ouyang, W Leung, A Simoneau… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT), a telomerase-independent process maintaining
telomeres, is mediated by break-induced replication (BIR). RAD52 promotes ALT by …

Damage-induced lncRNAs control the DNA damage response through interaction with DDRNAs at individual double-strand breaks

F Michelini, S Pitchiaya, V Vitelli, S Sharma, U Gioia… - Nature cell …, 2017 - nature.com
The DNA damage response (DDR) preserves genomic integrity. Small non-coding RNAs
termed DDRNAs are generated at DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) and are critical for …

Transcript-RNA-templated DNA recombination and repair

H Keskin, Y Shen, F Huang, M Patel, T Yang, K Ashley… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Homologous recombination is a molecular process that has multiple important roles in DNA
metabolism, both for DNA repair and genetic variation in all forms of life. Generally …

RAD51AP1 regulates ALT-HDR through chromatin-directed homeostasis of TERRA

N Kaminski, AR Wondisford, Y Kwon, ML Lynskey… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) is a homology-directed repair (HDR) mechanism
of telomere elongation that controls proliferation in subsets of aggressive cancer. Recent …

Minimizing the damage: repair pathways keep mitochondrial DNA intact

L Kazak, A Reyes, IJ Holt - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2012 - nature.com
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) faces the universal challenges of genome maintenance: the
accurate replication, transmission and preservation of its integrity throughout the life of the …

The democratization of gene editing: Insights from site-specific cleavage and double-strand break repair

M Jasin, JE Haber - DNA repair, 2016 - Elsevier
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are dangerous lesions that if not properly repaired can
lead to genomic change or cell death. Organisms have developed several pathways and …

Immediate-early, early, and late responses to DNA double stranded breaks

SR Kieffer, NF Lowndes - Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Loss or rearrangement of genetic information can result from incorrect responses to DNA
double strand breaks (DSBs). The cellular responses to DSBs encompass a range of highly …

Precise gene replacement in rice by RNA transcript-templated homologous recombination

S Li, J Li, Y He, M Xu, J Zhang, W Du, Y Zhao… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
One of the main obstacles to gene replacement in plants is efficient delivery of a donor
repair template (DRT) into the nucleus for homology-directed DNA repair (HDR) of double …