microRNAs in action: biogenesis, function and regulation

R Shang, S Lee, G Senavirathne, EC Lai - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Ever since microRNAs (miRNAs) were first recognized as an extensive gene family> 20
years ago, a broad community of researchers was drawn to investigate the universe of small …

Network regulation of microRNA biogenesis and target interaction

S Komatsu, H Kitai, HI Suzuki - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are versatile, post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression.
Canonical miRNAs are generated through the two-step DROSHA-and DICER-mediated …

NAP-seq reveals multiple classes of structured noncoding RNAs with regulatory functions

S Liu, J Huang, J Zhou, S Chen, W Zheng, C Liu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Up to 80% of the human genome produces “dark matter” RNAs, most of which are
noncapped RNAs (napRNAs) that frequently act as noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) to modulate …

Single-cell quantification of a broad RNA spectrum reveals unique noncoding patterns associated with cell types and states

A Isakova, N Neff, SR Quake - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2021 - pnas.org
The ability to interrogate total RNA content of single cells would enable better map** of
the transcriptional logic behind emerging cell types and states. However, current single-cell …

A functional connection between the Microprocessor and a variant NEXT complex

K Imamura, W Garland, M Schmid, L Jakobsen, K Sato… - Molecular Cell, 2024 - cell.com
In mammalian cells, primary miRNAs are cleaved at their hairpin structures by the
Microprocessor complex, whose core is composed of DROSHA and DGCR8. Here, we show …

Post‐transcriptional regulation of polycistronic microRNAs

M Vilimova, S Pfeffer - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
An important proportion of microRNA (miRNA) genes tend to lie close to each other within
animal genomes. Such genomic organization is generally referred to as miRNA clusters …

Genomic clustering facilitates nuclear processing of suboptimal pri-miRNA loci

R Shang, SC Baek, K Kim, B Kim, VN Kim, EC Lai - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Nuclear processing of most miRNAs is mediated by Microprocessor, comprised of RNase III
enzyme Drosha and its cofactor DGCR8. Here, we uncover a hidden layer of Microprocessor …

A MIR17HG-derived long noncoding RNA provides an essential chromatin scaffold for protein interaction and myeloma growth

E Morelli, M Fulciniti, MK Samur, CF Ribeiro… - Blood, 2023 - ashpublications.org
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) can drive tumorigenesis and are susceptible to
therapeutic intervention. Here, we used a large-scale CRISPR interference viability screen …

Dynamic Protein-RNA recognition in primary MicroRNA processing

VM Ruiz-Arroyo, Y Nam - Current opinion in structural biology, 2022 - Elsevier
MicroRNAs are prevalent regulators of gene expression, controlling most of the proteome in
multicellular organisms. To generate the functional small RNAs, precise processing steps …

[HTML][HTML] The miR-17-92 cluster: Yin and Yang in human cancers

W Zhao, A Gupta, J Krawczyk, S Gupta - Cancer Treatment and Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are non-coding RNAs which modulate gene expression via multiple
post-transcriptional mechanisms. They are involved in a variety of biological processes …