High-throughput determination of RNA structures

EJ Strobel, AM Yu, JB Lucks - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
RNA performs and regulates a diverse range of cellular processes, with new functional roles
being uncovered at a rapid pace. Interest is growing in how these functions are linked to …

Translational control through ribosome heterogeneity and functional specialization

DM Gay, AH Lund, MD Jansson - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2022 - cell.com
The conceptual origins of ribosome specialization can be traced back to the earliest days of
molecular biology. Yet, this field has only recently begun to gather momentum, with …

Cotranscriptional folding of a riboswitch at nucleotide resolution

KE Watters, EJ Strobel, AM Yu, JT Lis… - Nature structural & …, 2016 - nature.com
RNAs can begin to fold immediately as they emerge from RNA polymerase. During
cotranscriptional folding, interactions between nascent RNAs and ligands are able to direct …

A noncoding RNA modulator potentiates phenylalanine metabolism in mice

Y Li, Z Tan, Y Zhang, Z Zhang, Q Hu, K Liang, Y Jun… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The functional role of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in inherited metabolic disorders,
including phenylketonuria (PKU), is unknown. Here, we demonstrate that the mouse lncRNA …

Advances in RNA 3D structure modeling using experimental data

B Li, Y Cao, E Westhof, Z Miao - Frontiers in genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
RNA is a unique bio-macromolecule that can both record genetic information and perform
biological functions in a variety of molecular processes, including transcription, splicing …

Computationally reconstructing cotranscriptional RNA folding from experimental data reveals rearrangement of non-native folding intermediates

MY Angela, PM Gasper, L Cheng, LB Lai, S Kaur… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
The series of RNA folding events that occur during transcription can critically influence
cellular RNA function. Here, we present reconstructing RNA dynamics from data (R2D2), a …

Probing RNA structure in vivo

D Mitchell III, SM Assmann, PC Bevilacqua - Current opinion in structural …, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Probing RNA structure in vivo facilitates understanding of its biological
context.•All four RNA nucleobases and protein interaction sites can now be probed in …

Strategies to annotate and characterize long noncoding RNAs: advantages and pitfalls

H Cao, C Wahlestedt, P Kapranov - Trends in Genetics, 2018 - cell.com
The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs).
However, despite the massive volume of scientific data implicating these transcripts in a …

The chemistry and applications of RNA 2′-OH acylation

WA Velema, ET Kool - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
RNA is a versatile biomolecule with a broad range of biological functions that go far beyond
its initially described role as a simple information carrier. The development of chemical …

A ligand-gated strand displacement mechanism for ZTP riboswitch transcription control

EJ Strobel, L Cheng, KE Berman, PD Carlson… - Nature chemical …, 2019 - nature.com
Cotranscriptional folding is an obligate step of RNA biogenesis that can guide RNA structure
formation and function through transient intermediate folds. This process is particularly …