Mammalian Dicer finds a partner

JJ Rossi - EMBO reports, 2005 - embopress.org
RNA interference (RNAi) is a complex process that uses small RNAs of 21–23 nucleotides to
guide sequence-specific silencing of genetic information at both the transcriptional and …

RNA interference: past, present and future

TN Campbell, FYM Choy - Current issues in molecular biology, 2005 - mdpi.com
RNA interference (RNAi) is the sequence-specific gene silencing induced by double-
stranded RNA. RNAi is mediated by 21-23 nucleotide small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) …

Processing of Pre-microRNAs by the Dicer-1–Loquacious Complex in Drosophila Cells

K Saito, A Ishizuka, H Siomi, MC Siomi - PLoS biology, 2005 - journals.plos.org
microRNAs (miRNAs) are a large family of 21-to 22-nucleotide non-coding RNAs that
interact with target mRNAs at specific sites to induce cleavage of the message or inhibit …

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 …

Functional canonical RNAi in mice expressing a truncated Dicer isoform and long dsRNA

V Buccheri, J Pasulka, R Malik, Z Loubalova… - EMBO …, 2024 - embopress.org
Canonical RNA interference (RNAi) is sequence-specific mRNA degradation guided by
small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) made by RNase III Dicer from long double-stranded RNA …

siRNAs can function as miRNAs

JG Doench, CP Petersen, PA Sharp - Genes & development, 2003 - genesdev.cshlp.org
With the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi) and related phenomena, new regulatory roles
attributed to RNA continue to emerge. Here we show, in mammalian tissue culture, that a …

[HTML][HTML] Dicer partner proteins tune the length of mature miRNAs in flies and mammals

R Fukunaga, BW Han, JH Hung, J Xu, Z Weng… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Summary Drosophila Dicer-1 produces microRNAs (miRNAs) from pre-miRNA, whereas
Dicer-2 generates small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) from long dsRNA. Alternative splicing of …

Silencing gene expression with Dicer-generated siRNA pools

JW Myers, JE Ferrell - RNA Silencing: Methods and Protocols, 2005 - Springer
With the explosion of genomic information, there is an increasing need to analyze gene
function in a high-throughput fashion. This makes reverse genetic approaches extremely …

[PDF][PDF] RNA interference: What and why

D Pandita - Journal of Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2018 - researchgate.net
RNA interference is a highly evolutionarily conserved cellular mechanism of gene regulation
in which the own sequences of a gene turn it off. Also, the exogenous double-stranded RNA …

Recognition of the pre-miRNA structure by Drosophila Dicer-1

A Tsutsumi, T Kawamata, N Izumi, H Seitz… - Nature structural & …, 2011 - nature.com
Drosophila melanogaster has two Dicer proteins with specialized functions. Dicer-1 liberates
miRNA-miRNA* duplexes from precursor miRNAs (pre-miRNAs), whereas Dicer-2 …