Long non-coding RNAs: definitions, functions, challenges and recommendations

JS Mattick, PP Amaral, P Carninci… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Genes specifying long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) occupy a large fraction of the genomes
of complex organisms. The term 'lncRNAs' encompasses RNA polymerase I (Pol I), Pol II …

Molecular landscape of LncRNAs in prostate cancer: a focus on pathways and therapeutic targets for intervention

S Mirzaei, MDA Paskeh, E Okina, MH Gholami… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - Springer
Background One of the most malignant tumors in men is prostate cancer that is still incurable
due to its heterogenous and progressive natures. Genetic and epigenetic changes play …

Denaturing purifications demonstrate that PRC2 and other widely reported chromatin proteins do not appear to bind directly to RNA in vivo

JK Guo, MR Blanco, WG Walkup, G Bonesteele… - Molecular cell, 2024 - cell.com
Summary Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is reported to bind to many RNAs and
has become a central player in reports of how long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) regulate …

Genome regulation by polycomb and trithorax: 70 years and counting

B Schuettengruber, HM Bourbon, L Di Croce, G Cavalli - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Polycomb (PcG) and Trithorax (TrxG) group proteins are evolutionarily conserved chromatin-
modifying factors originally identified as part of an epigenetic cellular memory system that …

[HTML][HTML] Long non-coding RNA and RNA-binding protein interactions in cancer: experimental and machine learning approaches

H Shaath, R Vishnubalaji, R Elango… - Seminars in cancer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the complex and specific roles played by non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), which
comprise the bulk of the genome, is important for understanding virtually every hallmark of …

How do lncRNAs regulate transcription?

Y Long, X Wang, DT Youmans, TR Cech - Science advances, 2017 - science.org
It has recently become apparent that RNA, itself the product of transcription, is a major
regulator of the transcriptional process. In particular, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) …

Mechanisms of long noncoding RNA function in development and disease

SU Schmitz, P Grote, BG Herrmann - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2016 - Springer
Since decades it has been known that non-protein-coding RNAs have important cellular
functions. Deep sequencing recently facilitated the discovery of thousands of novel …

Aberrant NSUN2-mediated m5C modification of H19 lncRNA is associated with poor differentiation of hepatocellular carcinoma

Z Sun, S Xue, M Zhang, H Xu, X Hu, S Chen, Y Liu… - Oncogene, 2020 - nature.com
RNA methylation is an important epigenetic modification. Recent studies on RNA
methylation mainly focus on the m6A modification of mRNA, but very little is known about the …

Long non-coding RNAs: spatial amplifiers that control nuclear structure and gene expression

JM Engreitz, N Ollikainen, M Guttman - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2016 - nature.com
Over the past decade, it has become clear that mammalian genomes encode thousands of
long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), many of which are now implicated in diverse biological …

Global identification of Arabidopsis lncRNAs reveals the regulation of MAF4 by a natural antisense RNA

X Zhao, J Li, B Lian, H Gu, Y Li, Y Qi - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as important regulators of gene
expression and plant development. Here, we identified 6,510 lncRNAs in Arabidopsis under …