PIWI-interacting RNAs: small RNAs with big functions

DM Ozata, I Gainetdinov, A Zoch, D O'Carroll… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
In animals, PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) of 21–35 nucleotides in length silence
transposable elements, regulate gene expression and fight viral infection. piRNAs guide …

ceRNA in cancer: possible functions and clinical implications

X Qi, DH Zhang, N Wu, JH **ao, X Wang… - Journal of medical …, 2015 - jmg.bmj.com
Competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) are transcripts that can regulate each other at post-
transcription level by competing for shared miRNAs. CeRNA networks link the function of …

The biochemical basis of microRNA targeting efficacy

SE McGeary, KS Lin, CY Shi, TM Pham, N Bisaria… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short RNAs that guide repression of mRNA
targets. Each miRNA associates with an Argonaute (AGO) protein to form a complex in …

mirDIP 4.1—integrative database of human microRNA target predictions

T Tokar, C Pastrello, AEM Rossos… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs are important regulators of gene expression, achieved by binding to the gene to
be regulated. Even with modern high-throughput technologies, it is laborious and expensive …

Predicting effective microRNA target sites in mammalian mRNAs

V Agarwal, GW Bell, JW Nam, DP Bartel - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
MicroRNA targets are often recognized through pairing between the miRNA seed region
and complementary sites within target mRNAs, but not all of these canonical sites are …

Sequence, structure, and context preferences of human RNA binding proteins

D Dominguez, P Freese, MS Alexis, A Su, M Hochman… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
RNA binding proteins (RBPs) orchestrate the production, processing, and function of
mRNAs. Here, we present the affinity landscapes of 78 human RBPs using an unbiased …

miRNA targets: from prediction tools to experimental validation

G Riolo, S Cantara, C Marzocchi, C Ricci - Methods and protocols, 2020 - mdpi.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression in both animals
and plants. By pairing to microRNA responsive elements (mREs) on target mRNAs, miRNAs …

tRNA fragments (tRFs) guide Ago to regulate gene expression post-transcriptionally in a Dicer-independent manner

C Kuscu, P Kumar, M Kiran, Z Su, A Malik, A Dutta - Rna, 2018 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
tRNA related RNA fragments (tRFs), also known as tRNA-derived RNAs (tdRNAs), are
abundant small RNAs reported to be associated with Argonaute proteins, yet their function is …

Diversifying microRNA sequence and function

SL Ameres, PD Zamore - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2013 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate the expression of most genes in animals, but we are only
now beginning to understand how they are generated, assembled into functional complexes …

Identification and consequences of miRNA–target interactions—beyond repression of gene expression

J Hausser, M Zavolan - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Comparative genomics analyses and high-throughput experimental studies indicate that a
microRNA (miRNA) binds to hundreds of sites across the transcriptome. Although the …