[HTML][HTML] Life of RISC: Formation, action, and degradation of RNA-induced silencing complex

H Iwakawa, Y Tomari - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Small RNAs regulate a wide variety of biological processes by repressing the expression of
target genes at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. To achieve these …

Chemically modified platforms for better RNA therapeutics

Y Shi, X Zhen, Y Zhang, Y Li, S Koo, Q Saiding… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
RNA-based therapies have catalyzed a revolutionary transformation in the biomedical
landscape, offering unprecedented potential in disease prevention and treatment. However …

Recent progress in non-native nucleic acid modifications

LK McKenzie, R El-Khoury, JD Thorpe… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
While Nature harnesses RNA and DNA to store, read and write genetic information, the
inherent programmability, synthetic accessibility and wide functionality of these nucleic acids …

Regulation of microRNA function in animals

LFR Gebert, IJ MacRae - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Since their serendipitous discovery in nematodes, microRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as
key regulators of biological processes in animals. These small RNAs form complex networks …

PIWI-interacting RNAs: small RNAs with big functions

DM Ozata, I Gainetdinov, A Zoch, D O'Carroll… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
In animals, PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) of 21–35 nucleotides in length silence
transposable elements, regulate gene expression and fight viral infection. piRNAs guide …

Regulation of microRNA biogenesis and its crosstalk with other cellular pathways

T Treiber, N Treiber, G Meister - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short non-coding RNAs that inhibit the expression of target genes
by directly binding to their mRNAs. miRNAs are transcribed as precursor molecules, which …

RNA drugs and RNA targets for small molecules: principles, progress, and challenges

AM Yu, YH Choi, MJ Tu - Pharmacological reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
RNA-based therapies, including RNA molecules as drugs and RNA-targeted small
molecules, offer unique opportunities to expand the range of therapeutic targets. Various …

Current advances in RNA therapeutics for human diseases

H Zogg, R Singh, S Ro - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Following the discovery of nucleic acids by Friedrich Miescher in 1868, DNA and RNA were
recognized as the genetic code containing the necessary information for proper cell …

GalNAc-siRNA conjugates: leading the way for delivery of RNAi therapeutics

AD Springer, SF Dowdy - Nucleic acid therapeutics, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Short-interfering RNA (siRNA)-induced RNAi responses have great potential to treat a wide
variety of human diseases from cancer to pandemic viral outbreaks to Parkinson's Disease …

Phosphorothioate modified oligonucleotide–protein interactions

ST Crooke, TA Vickers, X Liang - Nucleic acids research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) interact with target RNAs via hybridization to modulate
gene expression through different mechanisms. ASO therapeutics are chemically modified …