Targeting RNA structures with small molecules

JL Childs-Disney, X Yang, QMR Gibaut… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022‏ - nature.com
RNA adopts 3D structures that confer varied functional roles in human biology and
dysfunction in disease. Approaches to therapeutically target RNA structures with small …

Regulation of pre-mRNA splicing: roles in physiology and disease, and therapeutic prospects

ME Rogalska, C Vivori, J Valcárcel - Nature reviews genetics, 2023‏ - nature.com
The removal of introns from mRNA precursors and its regulation by alternative splicing are
key for eukaryotic gene expression and cellular function, as evidenced by the numerous …

Probing the dynamic RNA structurome and its functions

RC Spitale, D Incarnato - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023‏ - nature.com
RNA is a key regulator of almost every cellular process, and the structures adopted by RNA
molecules are thought to be central to their functions. The recent fast-paced evolution of high …

The proteins of mRNA modification: writers, readers, and erasers

MN Flamand, M Tegowski… - Annual review of …, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
Over the past decade, mRNA modifications have emerged as important regulators of gene
expression control in cells. Fueled in large part by the development of tools for detecting …

Hidden codes in mRNA: control of gene expression by m6A

S Murakami, SR Jaffrey - Molecular cell, 2022‏ - cell.com
Information in mRNA has largely been thought to be confined to its nucleotide sequence.
However, the advent of map** techniques to detect modified nucleotides has revealed …

Co-transcriptional gene regulation in eukaryotes and prokaryotes

M Shine, J Gordon, L Schärfen, D Zigackova… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Many steps of RNA processing occur during transcription by RNA polymerases. Co-
transcriptional activities are deemed commonplace in prokaryotes, in which the lack of …

Advances and opportunities in RNA structure experimental determination and computational modeling

J Zhang, Y Fei, L Sun, QC Zhang - Nature methods, 2022‏ - nature.com
Beyond transferring genetic information, RNAs are molecules with diverse functions that
include catalyzing biochemical reactions and regulating gene expression. Most of these …

m6A RNA methylation: from mechanisms to therapeutic potential

PC He, C He - The EMBO journal, 2021‏ - embopress.org
RNA carries a diverse array of chemical modifications that play important roles in the
regulation of gene expression. N 6‐methyladenosine (m6A), installed onto mRNA by the …

Role of RNA modifications in cancer

I Barbieri, T Kouzarides - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020‏ - nature.com
Specific chemical modifications of biological molecules are an efficient way of regulating
molecular function, and a plethora of downstream signalling pathways are influenced by the …

Tailor made: the art of therapeutic mRNA design

M Metkar, CS Pepin, MJ Moore - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2024‏ - nature.com
Abstract mRNA medicine is a new and rapidly develo** field in which the delivery of
genetic information in the form of mRNA is used to direct therapeutic protein production in …