Blood-derived lncRNAs as biomarkers for cancer diagnosis: the Good, the Bad and the Beauty

C Badowski, B He, LX Garmire - NPJ precision oncology, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer ranks as one of the deadliest diseases worldwide. The high mortality rate associated
with cancer is partially due to the lack of reliable early detection methods and/or inaccurate …

How introns enhance gene expression

O Shaul - The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology, 2017 - Elsevier
In many eukaryotes, including mammals, plants, yeast, and insects, introns can increase
gene expression without functioning as a binding site for transcription factors. This …

Exclusion of m6A from splice-site proximal regions by the exon junction complex dictates m6A topologies and mRNA stability

A Uzonyi, D Dierks, R Nir, OS Kwon, U Toth, I Barbosa… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Summary N6-methyladenosine (m6A), a widespread destabilizing mark on mRNA, is non-
uniformly distributed across the transcriptome, yet the basis for its selective deposition is …

Exon junction complex shapes the m6A epitranscriptome

X Yang, R Triboulet, Q Liu, E Sendinc… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract N6-methyladenosine (m6A), the most abundant modification of mRNA, is essential
for normal development and dysregulation promotes cancer. m6A is highly enriched in the …

Massively parallel Cas13 screens reveal principles for guide RNA design

HH Wessels, A Méndez-Mancilla, X Guo, M Legut… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Type VI CRISPR enzymes are RNA-targeting proteins with nuclease activity that enable
specific and robust target gene knockdown without altering the genome. To define rules for …

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay: an intricate machinery that shapes transcriptomes

S Lykke-Andersen, TH Jensen - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2015 - nature.com
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is probably the best characterized eukaryotic RNA
degradation pathway. Through intricate steps, a set of NMD factors recognize and degrade …

starBase v2. 0: decoding miRNA-ceRNA, miRNA-ncRNA and protein–RNA interaction networks from large-scale CLIP-Seq data

JH Li, S Liu, H Zhou, LH Qu, JH Yang - Nucleic acids research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Although microRNAs (miRNAs), other non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs)(eg lncRNAs,
pseudogenes and circRNAs) and competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) have been …

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in humans at a glance

T Kurosaki, LE Maquat - Journal of cell science, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is an mRNA quality-control mechanism that
typifies all eukaryotes examined to date. NMD surveys newly synthesized mRNAs and …

Hsa_circ_0060467 promotes breast cancer liver metastasis by complexing with eIF4A3 and sponging miR-1205

Y Zeng, W Du, Z Huang, S Wu, X Ou, J Zhang… - Cell death …, 2023 - nature.com
Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer and the top cause of female mortality
worldwide. The prognosis for patients with breast cancer liver metastasis (BCLM) remains …

The multiple functions of RNA helicases as drivers and regulators of gene expression

CF Bourgeois, F Mortreux, D Auboeuf - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2016 - nature.com
RNA helicases comprise the largest family of enzymes involved in the metabolism of
mRNAs, the processing and fate of which rely on their packaging into messenger …