The molecular hallmarks of epigenetic control

CD Allis, T Jenuwein - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Over the past 20 years, breakthrough discoveries of chromatin-modifying enzymes and
associated mechanisms that alter chromatin in response to physiological or pathological …

Regulation of type I interferon responses

LB Ivashkiv, LT Donlin - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2014 - nature.com
Type I interferons (IFNs) activate intracellular antimicrobial programmes and influence the
development of innate and adaptive immune responses. Canonical type I IFN signalling …

Local regulation of gene expression by lncRNA promoters, transcription and splicing

JM Engreitz, JE Haines, EM Perez, G Munson, J Chen… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Mammalian genomes are pervasively transcribed, to produce thousands of long non-coding
RNAs (lncRNAs),. A few of these lncRNAs have been shown to recruit regulatory complexes …

mRNA regulation by RNA modifications

WV Gilbert, S Nachtergaele - Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Chemical modifications on mRNA represent a critical layer of gene expression regulation.
Research in this area has continued to accelerate over the last decade, as more …

Mechanisms and regulation of alternative pre-mRNA splicing

Y Lee, DC Rio - Annual review of biochemistry, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) splicing is a critical step in the posttranscriptional
regulation of gene expression, providing significant expansion of the functional proteome of …

Short intronic repeat sequences facilitate circular RNA production

D Liang, JE Wilusz - Genes & development, 2014 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Recent deep sequencing studies have revealed thousands of circular noncoding RNAs
generated from protein-coding genes. These RNAs are produced when the precursor …

Pseudouridine synthases modify human pre-mRNA co-transcriptionally and affect pre-mRNA processing

NM Martinez, A Su, MC Burns, JK Nussbacher… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Pseudouridine is a modified nucleotide that is prevalent in human mRNAs and is
dynamically regulated. Here, we investigate when in their life cycle mRNAs become …

Coupling mRNA processing with transcription in time and space

DL Bentley - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Maturation of mRNA precursors often occurs simultaneously with their synthesis by RNA
polymerase II (Pol II). The co-transcriptional nature of mRNA processing has permitted the …

Transcription elongation can affect genome 3D structure

S Heinz, L Texari, MGB Hayes, M Urbanowski… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
How transcription affects genome 3D organization is not well understood. We found that
during influenza A (IAV) infection, rampant transcription rapidly reorganizes host cell …

Alternative splicing: a pivotal step between eukaryotic transcription and translation

AR Kornblihtt, IE Schor, M Alló, G Dujardin… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2013 - nature.com
Alternative splicing was discovered simultaneously with splicing over three decades ago.
Since then, an enormous body of evidence has demonstrated the prevalence of alternative …