Long non-coding RNAs: a novel paradigm for toxicology

JL Dempsey, JY Cui - Toxicological Sciences, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are over 200 nucleotides in length and are transcribed
from the mammalian genome in a tissue-specific and developmentally regulated pattern …

Nascent RNA sequencing analysis provides insights into enhancer-mediated gene regulation

J Wang, Y Zhao, X Zhou, SW Hiebert, Q Liu, Y Shyr - BMC genomics, 2018 - Springer
Background Enhancers are distal cis-regulatory elements that control gene expression.
Despite an increasing appreciation of the importance of enhancers in cellular function and …

Affinity and dose of TCR engagement yield proportional enhancer and gene activity in CD4+ T cells

KA Allison, E Sajti, JG Collier, D Gosselin, TD Troutman… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Affinity and dose of T cell receptor (TCR) interaction with antigens govern the magnitude of
CD4+ T cell responses, but questions remain regarding the quantitative translation of TCR …

A generative model for the behavior of RNA polymerase

JG Azofeifa, RD Dowell - Bioinformatics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Transcription by RNA polymerase is a highly dynamic process involving multiple
distinct points of regulation. Nascent transcription assays are a relatively new set of high …

groHMM: a computational tool for identifying unannotated and cell type-specific transcription units from global run-on sequencing data

M Chae, CG Danko, WL Kraus - BMC bioinformatics, 2015 - Springer
Background Global run-on coupled with deep sequencing (GRO-seq) provides extensive
information on the location and function of coding and non-coding transcripts, including …

PEPPRO: quality control and processing of nascent RNA profiling data

JP Smith, AB Dutta, KM Sathyan, MJ Guertin… - Genome Biology, 2021 - Springer
Nascent RNA profiling is growing in popularity; however, there is no standard analysis
pipeline to uniformly process the data and assess quality. Here, we introduce PEPPRO, a …

Oscillating primary transcripts harbor miRNAs with circadian functions

H Wang, Z Fan, M Zhao, J Li, M Lu, W Liu, H Ying… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The roles of miRNAs as important post-transcriptional regulators in the circadian clock have
been suggested in several studies. But the search for circadian miRNAs has led to disparate …

A transcription factor (TF) inference method that broadly measures TF activity and identifies mechanistically distinct TF networks

T Jones, RF Sigauke, L Sanford, DJ Taatjes, MA Allen… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
TF profiler is a method of inferring transcription factor regulatory activity, ie when a TF is
present and actively regulating transcription, directly directly from nascent sequencing …

An annotation agnostic algorithm for detecting nascent RNA transcripts in GRO-seq

JG Azofeifa, MA Allen, ME Lladser… - … /ACM transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a fast and simple algorithm to detect nascent RNA transcription in global nuclear
run-on sequencing (GRO-seq). GRO-seq is a relatively new protocol that captures nascent …

nASAP: A Nascent RNA Profiling Data Analysis Platform

Z Wang, P Ge, XL Zhou, KM Shui, H Geng… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Although nascent RNA profiling data are widely used in transcriptional regulation studies,
the development and standardization of data processing pipeline lags far behind RNA-seq …