Targeting RNA structures with small molecules

JL Childs-Disney, X Yang, QMR Gibaut… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
RNA adopts 3D structures that confer varied functional roles in human biology and
dysfunction in disease. Approaches to therapeutically target RNA structures with small …

mRNA-based vaccines and therapeutics: an in-depth survey of current and upcoming clinical applications

YS Wang, M Kumari, GH Chen, MH Hong… - Journal of biomedical …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract mRNA-based drugs have tremendous potential as clinical treatments, however, a
major challenge in realizing this drug class will promise to develop methods for safely …

Advances and opportunities in RNA structure experimental determination and computational modeling

J Zhang, Y Fei, L Sun, QC Zhang - Nature methods, 2022 - nature.com
Beyond transferring genetic information, RNAs are molecules with diverse functions that
include catalyzing biochemical reactions and regulating gene expression. Most of these …

Thoughts on how to think (and talk) about RNA structure

Q Vicens, JS Kieft - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022 - pnas.org
Recent events have pushed RNA research into the spotlight. Continued discoveries of RNA
with unexpected diverse functions in healthy and diseased cells, such as the role of RNA as …

Tailor made: the art of therapeutic mRNA design

M Metkar, CS Pepin, MJ Moore - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract mRNA medicine is a new and rapidly develo** field in which the delivery of
genetic information in the form of mRNA is used to direct therapeutic protein production in …

Dynamic transcriptomic m6A decoration: writers, erasers, readers and functions in RNA metabolism

Y Yang, PJ Hsu, YS Chen, YG Yang - Cell research, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract N 6-methyladenosine (m6A) is a chemical modification present in multiple RNA
species, being most abundant in mRNAs. Studies on enzymes or factors that catalyze …

Identification of RNA structures and their roles in RNA functions

X Cao, Y Zhang, Y Ding, Y Wan - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
The development of high-throughput RNA structure profiling methods in the past decade has
greatly facilitated our ability to map and characterize different aspects of RNA structures …

mRNA structure regulates protein expression through changes in functional half-life

DM Mauger, BJ Cabral, V Presnyak, SV Su… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - pnas.org
Messenger RNAs (mRNAs) encode information in both their primary sequence and their
higher order structure. The independent contributions of factors like codon usage and …

Post-transcriptional gene regulation by mRNA modifications

BS Zhao, IA Roundtree, C He - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
The recent discovery of reversible mRNA methylation has opened a new realm of post-
transcriptional gene regulation in eukaryotes. The identification and functional …

Long noncoding RNAs in cancer pathways

AM Schmitt, HY Chang - Cancer cell, 2016 - cell.com
Genome-wide cancer mutation analyses are revealing an extensive landscape of functional
mutations within the noncoding genome, with profound effects on the expression of long …