Natural antisense transcripts as versatile regulators of gene expression

A Werner, A Kanhere, C Wahlestedt… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are emerging as a major class of gene products that
have central roles in cell and developmental biology. Natural antisense transcripts (NATs) …

High titer production of gastrodin enabled by systematic refactoring of yeast genome and an antisense-transcriptional regulation toolkit

Y Gu, Y Jiang, C Li, J Zhu, X Lu, J Ge, M Hu, J Deng… - Metabolic …, 2024 - Elsevier
Gastrodin, a phenolic glycoside, is a prominent component of Gastrodia elata, which is
renowned for its sedative, hypnotic, anticonvulsant, and neuroprotective activities …

Pervasive transcription: a controlled risk

T Villa, O Porrua - The FEBS Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Transcriptome‐wide interrogation of eukaryotic genomes has unveiled the pervasive nature
of RNA polymerase II transcription. Virtually, any DNA region with an accessible chromatin …

Transcription elongation is finely tuned by dozens of regulatory factors

M Couvillion, KM Harlen, KC Lachance, KL Trotta… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Understanding the complex network that regulates transcription elongation requires the
quantitative analysis of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) activity in a wide variety of regulatory …

Large scale microfluidic CRISPR screening for increased amylase secretion in yeast

SA Johansson, T Dulermo, C Jann, JD Smith… - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Key to our ability to increase recombinant protein production through secretion is a better
understanding of the pathways that interact to translate, process and export mature proteins …

High-resolution analysis of cell-state transitions in yeast suggests widespread transcriptional tuning by alternative starts

M Chia, C Li, S Marques, V Pelechano, NM Luscombe… - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Background The start and end sites of messenger RNAs (TSSs and TESs) are highly
regulated, often in a cell-type-specific manner. Yet the contribution of transcript diversity in …

Histone sumoylation promotes Set3 histone-deacetylase complex-mediated transcriptional regulation

HY Ryu, D Zhao, J Li, D Su… - Nucleic Acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Histones are substrates of the SUMO (small ubiquitin-like modifier) conjugation pathway.
Several reports suggest histone sumoylation affects transcription negatively, but …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic regulation by lncRNAs: an overview focused on UCA1 in colorectal cancer

B Neve, N Jonckheere, A Vincent, I Van Seuningen - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Colorectal cancers have become the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths. In
particular, acquired chemoresistance and metastatic lesions occurring in colorectal cancer …

Hypoxic regulation of hypoxia inducible factor 1 alpha via antisense transcription

N Downes, H Niskanen, VT Bosch, M Taipale… - Journal of Biological …, 2023 - jbc.org
Impaired oxygen homeostasis is a frequently encountered pathophysiological factor in
multiple complex diseases, including cardiovascular disease and cancer. While the …

A Systematic Review on Quiescent State Research Approaches in S. cerevisiae

M Opalek, H Tutaj, A Pirog, BJ Smug, J Rutkowska… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Quiescence, the temporary and reversible arrest of cell growth, is a fundamental biological
process. However, the lack of standardization in terms of reporting the experimental details …