Blood-derived lncRNAs as biomarkers for cancer diagnosis: the Good, the Bad and the Beauty

C Badowski, B He, LX Garmire - NPJ precision oncology, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer ranks as one of the deadliest diseases worldwide. The high mortality rate associated
with cancer is partially due to the lack of reliable early detection methods and/or inaccurate …

RNA editing underlies genetic risk of common inflammatory diseases

Q Li, MJ Gloudemans, JM Geisinger, B Fan, F Aguet… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
A major challenge in human genetics is to identify the molecular mechanisms of trait-
associated and disease-associated variants. To achieve this, quantitative trait locus (QTL) …

RM2Target: a comprehensive database for targets of writers, erasers and readers of RNA modifications

X Bao, Y Zhang, H Li, Y Teng, L Ma… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
RNA modification is a dynamic and reversible process regulated by a series of writers,
erasers and readers (WERs). Abnormal changes of WERs will disrupt the RNA modification …

Noncoding RNAs and RNA-binding proteins: Emerging governors of liver physiology and metabolic diseases

C Sommerauer, C Kutter - American Journal of Physiology …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
The liver holds central roles in detoxification, energy metabolism, and whole body
homeostasis but can develop malignant phenotypes when being chronically overwhelmed …

hnRNP A1 dysfunction alters RNA splicing and drives neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis (MS)

HE Salapa, PA Thibault, CD Libner, Y Ding… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Neurodegeneration is the primary driver of disease progression in multiple sclerosis (MS)
resulting in permanent disability, creating an urgent need to discover its underlying …

2′-O-methylation at internal sites on mRNA promotes mRNA stability

Y Li, Y Yi, X Gao, X Wang, D Zhao, R Wang, LS Zhang… - Molecular Cell, 2024 - cell.com
O-methylation (Nm) is a prominent RNA modification well known in noncoding RNAs and
more recently also found at many mRNA internal sites. However, their function and base …

Inhibition of SF3B1 improves the immune microenvironment through pyroptosis and synergizes with αPDL1 in ovarian cancer

S Wang, Y Liu, H **ao, Z Chen, X Yang, J Yin… - Cell Death & …, 2023 - nature.com
Ovarian cancer is resistant to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) treatment. Combination of
targeted therapy and immunotherapy is a promising strategy for ovarian cancer treatment …

Subcytoplasmic location of translation controls protein output

EL Horste, MM Fansler, T Cai, X Chen, S Mitschka… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
The cytoplasm is highly compartmentalized, but the extent and consequences of
subcytoplasmic mRNA localization in non-polarized cells are largely unknown. We …

eIF4E-independent translation is largely eIF3d-dependent

M Roiuk, M Neff, AA Teleman - Nature communications, 2024 - nature.com
Translation initiation is a highly regulated step needed for protein synthesis. Most cell-based
mechanistic work on translation initiation has been done using non-stressed cells growing in …

RBPWorld for exploring functions and disease associations of RNA-binding proteins across species

JY Liao, B Yang, CP Shi, WX Deng… - Nucleic Acids …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) play key roles in a wide range of physiological and
pathological processes. To facilitate the investigation of RBP functions and disease …