Genetic insight into the domain structure and functions of dicer-type ribonucleases

K Ciechanowska, M Pokornowska… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Ribonuclease Dicer belongs to the family of RNase III endoribonucleases, the enzymes that
specifically hydrolyze phosphodiester bonds found in double-stranded regions of RNAs …

The Significance of the DUF283 Domain for the Activity of Human Ribonuclease Dicer

A Szczepanska, M Wojnicka… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Dicers are multidomain proteins, usually comprising an amino-terminal putative helicase
domain, a DUF283 domain (domain of unknown function), a PAZ domain, two RNase III …

Unknown areas of activity of human ribonuclease dicer: a putative deoxyribonuclease activity

M Wojnicka, A Szczepanska, A Kurzynska-Kokorniak - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Dicer ribonuclease plays a crucial role in the biogenesis of small regulatory RNAs
(srRNAs) by processing long double-stranded RNAs and single-stranded hairpin RNA …

The human Dicer helicase domain is capable of ATP hydrolysis and single-stranded nucleic acid binding

K Ciechanowska, A Szczepanska, K Szpotkowski… - BMC biology, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background Vertebrates have one Dicer ortholog that generates both microRNAs
(miRNAs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), in contrast to the multiple Dicer-like proteins …

Structural insights into the advances and mechanistic understanding of human Dicer

RM Torrez, MD Ohi, AL Garner - Biochemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
The RNase III endoribonuclease Dicer was discovered to be associated with cleavage of
double-stranded RNA in 2001. Since then, many advances in our understanding of Dicer …

Overexpression and purification of Dicer and accessory proteins for biochemical and structural studies

NK Sinha, BL Bass - Methods, 2017 - Elsevier
The Dicer family of ribonucleases plays a key role in small RNA-based regulatory pathways
by generating short dsRNA fragments that modulate expression of endogenous genes, or …

Dicer structure and function: conserved and evolving features

D Zapletal, K Kubicek, P Svoboda, R Stefl - EMBO reports, 2023 - embopress.org
RNase III Dicer produces small RNAs guiding sequence‐specific regulations, with important
biological roles in eukaryotes. Major Dicer‐dependent mechanisms are RNA interference …

Human ribonuclease Dicer–structure and functions

N Koralewska, K Ciechanowska, M Pokornowska… - Postepy …, 2019 - europepmc.org
Endoribonuclease III Dicer plays a crucial role in the biogenesis of small regulatory RNAs,
such as microRNAs (miRNAs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs). However, this is not the …

The molecular architecture of human Dicer

PW Lau, KZ Guiley, N De, CS Potter… - Nature structural & …, 2012 - nature.com
Dicer is a multidomain enzyme that generates small RNAs for gene silencing in eukaryotes.
Current understanding of Dicer structure is restricted to simple forms of the enzyme, whereas …

A glimpse of “Dicer Biology” through the structural and functional perspective

S Paturi, MV Deshmukh - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The RNA interference pathway (RNAi) is executed by two core enzymes, Dicer and
Argonaute, for accomplishing a tailored transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene …