Substrate-specific structural rearrangements of human Dicer

DW Taylor, E Ma, H Shigematsu… - Nature structural & …, 2013 - nature.com
Dicer has a central role in RNA-interference pathways by cleaving double-stranded RNAs
(dsRNAs) to produce small regulatory RNAs. Human Dicer can process long double …

Human Dicer binds short single-strand and double-strand RNA with high affinity and interacts with different regions of the nucleic acids

WF Lima, H Murray, JG Nichols, H Wu, H Sun… - Journal of biological …, 2009 - ASBMB
Human Dicer is an integral component of the RNA interference pathway. Dicer processes
premicro-RNA and double-strand RNA to, respectively, mature micro-RNA and short …

[HTML][HTML] Coordinated activities of human dicer domains in regulatory RNA processing

E Ma, K Zhou, MA Kidwell, JA Doudna - Journal of molecular biology, 2012 - Elsevier
The conserved ribonuclease Dicer generates microRNAs and short‐interfering RNAs that
guide gene silencing in eukaryotes. The specific contributions of human Dicer's structural …

Production of small RNAs by mammalian Dicer

E Svobodova, J Kubikova, P Svoboda - Pflügers Archiv-European Journal …, 2016 - Springer
MicroRNA (miRNA) and RNA interference (RNAi) pathways employ RNase III Dicer for the
biogenesis of small RNAs guiding post-transcriptional repression. Requirements for Dicer …

[HTML][HTML] Human Dicer preferentially cleaves dsRNAs at their termini without a requirement for ATP

H Zhang, FA Kolb, V Brondani, E Billy… - The EMBO …, 2002 - embopress.org
Dicer is a multi‐domain RNase III‐related endonuclease responsible for processing double‐
stranded RNA (dsRNA) to small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) during a process of RNA …

Structural determinants of RNA recognition and cleavage by Dicer

IJ MacRae, K Zhou, JA Doudna - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2007 - nature.com
A hallmark of RNA interference is the production of short double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)
molecules 21–28 nucleotides in length by the specialized RNase III protein Dicer. Dicer …

Substrate-specific kinetics of Dicer-catalyzed RNA processing

S Chakravarthy, SH Sternberg, CA Kellenberger… - Journal of molecular …, 2010 - Elsevier
The specialized ribonuclease Dicer plays a central role in eukaryotic gene expression by
producing small regulatory RNAs—microRNAs (miRNAs) and short interfering RNAs …

Structural and biochemical insights into the dicing mechanism of mouse Dicer: a conserved lysine is critical for dsRNA cleavage

Z Du, JK Lee, R Tjhen, RM Stroud… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Dicer, an RNase III enzyme, initiates RNA interference by processing precursor dsRNAs into
mature microRNAs and small-interfering RNAs. It is also involved in loading and activation …

The role of human Dicer-dsRBD in processing small regulatory RNAs

C Wostenberg, JW Lary, D Sahu, R Acevedo… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
One of the most exciting recent developments in RNA biology has been the discovery of
small non-coding RNAs that affect gene expression through the RNA interference (RNAi) …

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 …