Spatial omics advances for in situ RNA biology

J Ren, S Luo, H Shi, X Wang - Molecular Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Spatial regulation of RNA plays a critical role in gene expression regulation and cellular
function. Understanding spatially resolved RNA dynamics and translation is vital for bringing …

[HTML][HTML] Ribosome Structural Changes Dynamically Affect Ribosome Function

L Lindahl - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Ribosomes were known to be multicomponent complexes as early as the 1960s.
Nonetheless, the prevailing view for decades considered active ribosomes to be a …

TREX reveals proteins that bind to specific RNA regions in living cells

M Dodel, G Guiducci, M Dermit, S Krishnamurthy… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Different regions of RNA molecules can often engage in specific interactions with distinct
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs), giving rise to diverse modalities of RNA regulation and …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic control and inheritance of rDNA arrays

T Potapova, P Kostos, S McKinney, M Borchers… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes exist in multiple copies arranged in tandem arrays known as
ribosomal DNA (rDNA). The total number of gene copies is variable, and the mechanisms …

Decoding Ribosome Heterogeneity: A New Horizon in Cancer Therapy

V Gelfo, G Venturi, F Zacchini, L Montanaro - Biomedicines, 2024 - mdpi.com
The traditional perception of ribosomes as uniform molecular machines has been
revolutionized by recent discoveries, revealing a complex landscape of ribosomal …

Assessing Human Ribosomal DNA Variation and Its Association With Phenotypic Outcomes

F Rodriguez‐Algarra, E Whittaker… - …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Although genome‐scale analyses have provided insights into the connection between
genetic variability and complex human phenotypes, much trait variation is still not fully …

Ribosomes unraveled: The path from variant to impact

P Kostos, A Galligos, JL Gerton - Cell Genomics, 2024 - cell.com
In this issue of Cell Genomics, Rothschild et al. 1 reveal how ribosomal RNA diversity
impacts ribosome structure and its implications for health and disease. Their innovative …

Inconsistencies in the published rabbit ribosomal rRNAs: a proposal for uniformity in sequence and site numbering

S De, M Zhou, ZP Brown, RN Burton-Smith, Y Hashem… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Examination of all publicly available Oryctolagus cuniculus (rabbit) ribosome cryo-EM
structures reveals numerous confusing inconsistencies. First, there are a plethora of single …

Germline sequence variation within the ribosomal DNA is associated with human complex traits

F Rodriguez-Algarra, M Cooper, FK Mardakheh… - bioRxiv, 2025 - biorxiv.org
The ribosome is one of the core macromolecules in the cell. The ribosomal RNAs (rRNA),
which are essential components of the ribosome, are coded by the multi-copy ribosomal …

Chromatin landscape in transcriptional regulation: A case for ribosomal transcription

K Tariq - 2025 - diva-portal.org
Cell survival, growth, and proliferation are dependent on ribosomal protein synthesis.
Ribosome biogenesis is thus a highly regulated process to preserve cell function and …