In response to environmental stress, eukaryotic cells reversibly form functional amyloid aggregates called amyloid bodies (A-bodies). While these solid-like biomolecular condensates share many biophysical characterist...
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A range of noncoding rnas are transcribed by pol III. A lot of them such as trna, 7SL rna, 7SK rna, 5S rna, MRP rna, Y rnas, Hi rna, and vault rnas are considered as "house keeping" rnas essential for eukary...
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A range of noncoding rnas are transcribed by pol III. A lot of them such as trna, 7SL rna, 7SK rna, 5S rna, MRP rna, Y rnas, Hi rna, and vault rnas are considered as "house keeping" rnas essential for eukaryotic cells. In recent years, researchers started to recognize the existence of unconventional functions of many pol III transcripts other than classical "house keeping" roles. Therefore, these ncrnas could now be viewed as molecules with functional regulatory signals as well as cellular building blocks. These noncoding rnas, all transcribed by pol III, may assemble regulatory networks with analogy to signaling pathways in eukaryotic cells. In this review we discuss these unconventional roles of pol III transcripts. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Long noncoding rnas (lncrna) are regulatory rna species, which have recently come into the focus of scientific interest. Until now little was known about their mode of action, although according to many studies it was...
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Long noncoding rnas (lncrna) are regulatory rna species, which have recently come into the focus of scientific interest. Until now little was known about their mode of action, although according to many studies it was presumed that they exercise an important epigenetic function within cells under physiological conditions as well as in disease processes. This article presents some of these regulatory functions and the suggested classification due to the localization as well as the current functional classification of lncrnas. Several lncrnas have now been identified that are important within the framework of renal and cardiovascular diseases. On the basis of the most recent resarch results, this article demonstrates how novel therapeutic routes for these diseases can be pursued in the future using lncrna antagonists or viral constructs on overexpression.
Science is facing a new rna world that is shaping our knowledge, and we are discovering a new horizon in molecular biology. New technologies revealed thousands and thousands of new rnas, most of them located in what w...
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Science is facing a new rna world that is shaping our knowledge, and we are discovering a new horizon in molecular biology. New technologies revealed thousands and thousands of new rnas, most of them located in what was once known as the "dark matter of DNA". They are functional regulatory rnas and do not code for proteins, and they orchestrate the cellular function according to the changes needed. These noncoding rnas are ubiquitous, and they are present from viruses to humans. In this Virtual Issue, The FEBS Journal features a collection of recent articles on long noncoding rnas, micrornas, and circular rnas. It gives a broad perspective regarding their role in vascular diseases, ocular diseases, immune cell development and homeostasis, inflammation, production of extracellular matrix, and cancer. Furthermore, review-type articles highlight the potential use of noncoding rnas in a wide range of applications.
Since the discovery of rnai, great efforts have been undertaken to unleash the potential biomedical applicability of small noncoding rnas, mainly mirnas, involving their use as biomarkers for personalized diagnostics ...
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Since the discovery of rnai, great efforts have been undertaken to unleash the potential biomedical applicability of small noncoding rnas, mainly mirnas, involving their use as biomarkers for personalized diagnostics or their usability as active agents or therapy targets. The research's focus on the noncoding rna world is now slowly moving from a phase of basic discoveries into a new phase, where every single molecule out of many hundreds of cataloged noncoding rnas becomes dissected in order to investigate these molecules' biomedical relevance. In addition, rna classes neglected before, such as long noncoding rnas or circular rnas attract more attention. Numerous timely results and hypotheses were presented at the 2015 Keystone Symposium 'Micrornas and noncoding rnas in Cancer'.
Tremendous progress has been made over the last century characterizing the structure, function, and evolutionary dynamics of protein-coding genes. Over the last three decades, biologists have sequenced the genomes of ...
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Tremendous progress has been made over the last century characterizing the structure, function, and evolutionary dynamics of protein-coding genes. Over the last three decades, biologists have sequenced the genomes of a variety of organisms, and it quickly became apparent that a relatively small portion of most genomes encode protein-coding genes. We now know that the non-protein-coding space contains repetitive sequences along with non-coding rnas. Many of these non-coding rnas encode housekeeping transcripts such as: ribosomal rnas, transfer rnas, small nucleolar rnas, and small nuclear rnas. However, the remaining transcripts include regulatory rnas that have become the focus of intense investigation over the past two decades. These include the micrornas and the small interfering rnas which both act to knock down gene expression. More recently, a class of transcripts called long non-coding rnas (lncrnas) have been interrogated. One well described, functional lncrna is the telomerase rna which is necessary for genome stability via the maintenance of chromosome ends following DNA replication (Dew-Budd et al. 2020). While lncrnas have been known for more than two decades, their functions have remained enigmatic; there are few functionally characterized lncrnas. However, lncrnas that have been characterized, especially in mammalian systems, appear to fine tune a plethora of developmental and regulatory processes, along with responses to environmental cues. Lncrnas are frequently expressed at low levels and in specific tissues; they are often poorly conserved among closely related species (Palos et al. 2021). As high-throughput rna-sequencing becomes more widely available and used, researchers have employed the resulting data to identify lncrnas en masse. For mammals, a variety of high-quality resources have been used to generate informative annotations to allow for improved hypothesis generation. These resources include GENCODE (Frankish et al. 2021), coupled with lnc
noncoding rnas (ncrnas) are important regulatory molecules that function owing to their specific secondary structures. The secondary structure depends on the rna sequence and can be viewed as a combination of loops, s...
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Despite awareness of risk factors for the development of HCC and advances in the diagnosis and clinical management of the di...
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The Hox genes are well-studied genes which are regulated by an epigenetic mechanism. Accumulated evidence suggests that DNA methylation and histone modifications have a crucial function to regulate them. Here we try t...
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It is becoming increasingly clear that a large repertoire of noncoding rnas (ncrnas) are actively transcribed from the mammalian genome, regulating diverse cellular processes in development and diseases through a vari...
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It is becoming increasingly clear that a large repertoire of noncoding rnas (ncrnas) are actively transcribed from the mammalian genome, regulating diverse cellular processes in development and diseases through a variety of gene regulatory mechanisms. As the most extensively studied ncrna species, micrornas (mirnas) are important components in the oncogene and tumor suppressor network, and have been employed as potential biomarkers, therapeutic reagents, and therapeutic targets for cancer treatment. Other ncrnas, particularly long noncoding rnas, also have a profound impact on cancer development, as demonstrated in both mouse and human tumor models. We are only starting to understand the realm of ncrna biology, and the exact molecular mechanisms governing ncrna functions remain largely unexplored. With numerous ncrnas discovered through high-throughput approaches, understanding their functions in malignant transformation will be one of the most exciting challenges in cancer research.
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