RNA-based therapeutics: from antisense oligonucleotides to miRNAs

S Bajan, G Hutvagner - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The first therapeutic nucleic acid, a DNA oligonucleotide, was approved for clinical use in
1998. Twenty years later, in 2018, the first therapeutic RNA-based oligonucleotide was …

Current status of microRNA-based therapeutic approaches in neurodegenerative disorders

S Paul, LA Bravo Vázquez, S Pérez Uribe… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a key gene regulator and play essential roles in several biological
and pathological mechanisms in the human system. In recent years, plenty of miRNAs have …

mirDIP 4.1—integrative database of human microRNA target predictions

T Tokar, C Pastrello, AEM Rossos… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs are important regulators of gene expression, achieved by binding to the gene to
be regulated. Even with modern high-throughput technologies, it is laborious and expensive …

PseUI: Pseudouridine sites identification based on RNA sequence information

J He, T Fang, Z Zhang, B Huang, X Zhu, Y **ong - BMC bioinformatics, 2018 - Springer
Background Pseudouridylation is the most prevalent type of posttranscriptional modification
in various stable RNAs of all organisms, which significantly affects many cellular processes …

The dual regulatory role of MiR-181a in breast cancer

C Yang, SN Tabatabaei, X Ruan, P Hardy - Cellular Physiology and …, 2017 - karger.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a family of highly conserved noncoding single˗ stranded RNA
molecules of 21 to 25 nucleotides. miRNAs silence their cognate target genes at the post …

Candida albicans induces cross-kingdom miRNA trafficking in human monocytes to promote fungal growth

LD Halder, S Babych, DI Palme… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
In response to infections, human immune cells release extracellular vesicles (EVs) that carry
a situationally adapted cocktail of proteins and nucleic acids, including microRNAs …

Dysregulation of MiR-144-5p/RNF187 axis contributes to the progression of colorectal cancer

Z Gao, J Jiang, L Hou, B Zhang - Journal of translational internal …, 2022 - degruyter.com
Background and Objectives RING finger protein 187 (RNF187) belongs to RING domain-
containing E3 ligases family, which was recently reported to be involved in oncogenesis and …

Onco-miR-21 promotes Stat3-dependent gastric cancer progression

J Tse, T Pierce, ALE Carli, MG Alorro, S Thiem… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of highly conserved small, non-protein
coding RNAs with often-deregulated expression in cancer. miR-21 is a well-studied cancer …

What's the target: understanding two decades of in silico microRNA-target prediction

F Kern, C Backes, P Hirsch, T Fehlmann… - Briefings in …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Since the initial discovery of microRNAs as post-transcriptional, regulatory key
players in the 1990s, a total number of mature microRNAs have been publicly described for …

Evolutionary dynamics of microRNA target sites across vertebrate evolution

A Simkin, R Geissler, ABR McIntyre, A Grimson - PLoS genetics, 2020 - journals.plos.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) control the abundance of the majority of the vertebrate transcriptome.
The recognition sequences, or target sites, for bilaterian miRNAs are found predominantly in …