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 …

[HTML][HTML] Circular RNAs: Characterization, cellular roles, and applications

CX Liu, LL Chen - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Most circular RNAs are produced from the back-splicing of exons of precursor mRNAs.
Recent technological advances have in part overcome problems with their circular …

Regulation of pre-mRNA splicing: roles in physiology and disease, and therapeutic prospects

ME Rogalska, C Vivori, J Valcárcel - Nature reviews genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The removal of introns from mRNA precursors and its regulation by alternative splicing are
key for eukaryotic gene expression and cellular function, as evidenced by the numerous …

Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics: deciphering brain complexity in health and disease

M Piwecka, N Rajewsky, A Rybak-Wolf - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
In the past decade, single-cell technologies have proliferated and improved from their
technically challenging beginnings to become common laboratory methods capable of …

Biogenesis and regulatory roles of circular RNAs

L Yang, JE Wilusz, LL Chen - Annual review of cell and …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Covalently closed, single-stranded circular RNAs can be produced from viral RNA genomes
as well as from the processing of cellular housekee** noncoding RNAs and precursor …

Specific expression and functions of circular RNAs

S Misir, N Wu, BB Yang - Cell Death & Differentiation, 2022 - nature.com
In recent years, circular RNAs (circRNAs), a new class of RNA molecules characterized by
their covalently closed circular structure, have become a new research paradigm in RNA …

Long noncoding RNAs in cancer metastasis

SJ Liu, HX Dang, DA Lim, FY Feng… - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Metastasis is a major contributor to cancer-associated deaths. It is characterized by a
multistep process that occurs through the acquisition of molecular and phenotypic changes …

Targeting circular RNAs as a therapeutic approach: current strategies and challenges

AT He, J Liu, F Li, BB Yang - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Significant progress has been made in circular RNA (circRNA) research in recent years.
Increasing evidence suggests that circRNAs play important roles in many cellular processes …

RNA in cancer

GJ Goodall, VO Wickramasinghe - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
While the processing of mRNA is essential for gene expression, recent findings have
highlighted that RNA processing is systematically altered in cancer. Mutations in RNA …

The expanding regulatory mechanisms and cellular functions of circular RNAs

LL Chen - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2020 - nature.com
Many protein-coding genes in higher eukaryotes can produce circular RNAs (circRNAs)
through back-splicing of exons. CircRNAs differ from mRNAs in their production, structure …