Transcription regulation by long non-coding RNAs: mechanisms and disease relevance

J Ferrer, N Dimitrova - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2024‏ - nature.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) outnumber protein-coding transcripts, but their functions
remain largely unknown. In this Review, we discuss the emerging roles of lncRNAs in the …

Long noncoding RNAs in cancer metastasis

SJ Liu, HX Dang, DA Lim, FY Feng… - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021‏ - nature.com
Metastasis is a major contributor to cancer-associated deaths. It is characterized by a
multistep process that occurs through the acquisition of molecular and phenotypic changes …

Gene regulation by long non-coding RNAs and its biological functions

L Statello, CJ Guo, LL Chen, M Huarte - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Evidence accumulated over the past decade shows that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs)
are widely expressed and have key roles in gene regulation. Recent studies have begun to …

Functional classification and experimental dissection of long noncoding RNAs

F Kopp, JT Mendell - Cell, 2018‏ - cell.com
Over the last decade, it has been increasingly demonstrated that the genomes of many
species are pervasively transcribed, resulting in the production of numerous long noncoding …

Enhancer RNAs are an important regulatory layer of the epigenome

V Sartorelli, SM Lauberth - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2020‏ - nature.com
Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) direct a remarkable number of diverse functions in development
and disease through their regulation of transcription, RNA processing and translation …

Long noncoding RNAs: molecular modalities to organismal functions

JL Rinn, HY Chang - Annual review of biochemistry, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
We have known for decades that long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) can play essential
functions across most forms of life. The maintenance of chromosome length requires an …

CRISPRi-based genome-scale identification of functional long noncoding RNA loci in human cells

SJ Liu, MA Horlbeck, SW Cho, HS Birk, M Malatesta… - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
INTRODUCTION The human genome contains tens of thousands of loci that produce long
noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), transcripts that have no apparent protein-coding potential. A …

Overcoming challenges and dogmas to understand the functions of pseudogenes

SW Cheetham, GJ Faulkner, ME Dinger - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020‏ - nature.com
Pseudogenes are defined as regions of the genome that contain defective copies of genes.
They exist across almost all forms of life, and in mammalian genomes are annotated in …

Promoter of lncRNA gene PVT1 is a tumor-suppressor DNA boundary element

SW Cho, J Xu, R Sun, MR Mumbach, AC Carter… - Cell, 2018‏ - cell.com
Noncoding mutations in cancer genomes are frequent but challenging to interpret. PVT1
encodes an oncogenic lncRNA, but recurrent translocations and deletions in human cancers …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the mechanisms behind long noncoding RNAs and cancer

MM Balas, AM Johnson - Non-coding RNA research, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Over the past decade, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been identified as significant
players in gene regulation. They are often differentially expressed and widely-associated …