Comparative genomics in the search for conserved long noncoding RNAs

MW Szcześniak, MR Kubiak, E Wanowska… - Essays in …, 2021 - portlandpress.com
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as prominent regulators of gene
expression in eukaryotes. The identification of lncRNA orthologs is essential in efforts to …

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 …

Reverse-genetics studies of lncRNAs—what we have learnt and paths forward

F Gao, Y Cai, P Kapranov, D Xu - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) represent a major fraction of the transcriptome in
multicellular organisms. Although a handful of well-studied lncRNAs are broadly recognized …

Long noncoding RNAs: from identification to functions and mechanisms

O Marín-Béjar, M Huarte - Advances in Genomics and Genetics, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The complex universe of RNA transcribed by mammalian cells includes thousands of large
RNA molecules that do not encode for proteins. Despite their lack of coding capacity and …

Evolutionary conservation of long non-coding RNAs; sequence, structure, function

P Johnsson, L Lipovich, D Grandér… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Recent advances in genomewide studies have revealed the abundance of long
non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in mammalian transcriptomes. The ENCODE Consortium has …

[HTML][HTML] Panning for long noncoding RNAs

S Zhu, XO Zhang, L Yang - Biomolecules, 2013 - mdpi.com
The recent advent of high-throughput approaches has revealed widespread transcription of
the human genome, leading to a new appreciation of transcription regulation, especially …

Exploring the alternative splicing of long noncoding RNAs

MR Khan, RJ Wellinger, B Laurent - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
Like protein-coding genes, long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) genes are composed of introns
and exons. After their transcription, lncRNAs are subject to constitutive and/or alternative …

The specificity of long noncoding RNA expression

BS Gloss, ME Dinger - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2016 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as a fundamental
molecular class whose members play pivotal roles in the regulation of the genome. The …

Computational analysis of functional long noncoding RNAs reveals lack of peptide-coding capacity and parallels with 3′ UTRs

F Niazi, S Valadkhan - Rna, 2012 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Recent transcriptome analyses have indicated that a large part of mammalian genomes are
transcribed into long non-protein-coding RNAs (lncRNAs). However, only a very small …

lncRNAdb: a reference database for long noncoding RNAs

PP Amaral, MB Clark, DK Gascoigne… - Nucleic acids …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Large numbers of long RNAs with little or no protein-coding potential [long noncoding RNAs
(lncRNAs)] are being identified in eukaryotes. In parallel, increasing data describing the …