Determinants of enhancer and promoter activities of regulatory elements

R Andersson, A Sandelin - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
The proper activities of enhancers and gene promoters are essential for coordinated
transcription within a cell. Although diverse methodologies have been developed to identify …

The functions and unique features of long intergenic non-coding RNA

JD Ransohoff, Y Wei, PA Khavari - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2018 - nature.com
Long intergenic non-coding RNA (lincRNA) genes have diverse features that distinguish
them from mRNA-encoding genes and exercise functions such as remodelling chromatin …

Unique features of long non-coding RNA biogenesis and function

JJ Quinn, HY Chang - Nature reviews genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a diverse class of RNAs that engage in numerous
biological processes across every branch of life. Although initially discovered as mRNA-like …

Mouse totipotent stem cells captured and maintained through spliceosomal repression

H Shen, M Yang, S Li, J Zhang, B Peng, C Wang… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Since establishment of the first embryonic stem cells (ESCs), in vitro culture of totipotent cells
functionally and molecularly comparable with in vivo blastomeres with embryonic and …

Local regulation of gene expression by lncRNA promoters, transcription and splicing

JM Engreitz, JE Haines, EM Perez, G Munson, J Chen… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Mammalian genomes are pervasively transcribed, to produce thousands of long non-coding
RNAs (lncRNAs),. A few of these lncRNAs have been shown to recruit regulatory complexes …

Enhancers as non-coding RNA transcription units: recent insights and future perspectives

W Li, D Notani, MG Rosenfeld - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Networks of regulatory enhancers dictate distinct cell identities and cellular responses to
diverse signals by instructing precise spatiotemporal patterns of gene expression. However …

Evolution to the rescue: using comparative genomics to understand long non-coding RNAs

I Ulitsky - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged in recent years as major players in a
multitude of pathways across species, but it remains challenging to understand which of …

Localization and abundance analysis of human lncRNAs at single-cell and single-molecule resolution

MN Cabili, MC Dunagin, PD McClanahan, A Biaesch… - Genome biology, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been implicated in diverse
biological processes. In contrast to extensive genomic annotation of lncRNA transcripts, far …

Analysis of nascent RNA identifies a unified architecture of initiation regions at mammalian promoters and enhancers

LJ Core, AL Martins, CG Danko, CT Waters, A Siepel… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Despite the conventional distinction between them, promoters and enhancers share many
features in mammals, including divergent transcription and similar modes of transcription …

Widespread transcriptional pausing and elongation control at enhancers

T Henriques, BS Scruggs, MO Inouye… - Genes & …, 2018 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Regulation by gene-distal enhancers is critical for cell type-specific and condition-specific
patterns of gene expression. Thus, to understand the basis of gene activity in a given cell …