Determinants of selectivity in the dicing mechanism

TNY Le, CT Le, TA Nguyen - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Our research elucidates the cleavage processes of the RNase III enzyme, DICER, which
plays a crucial role in the production of small RNAs, such as microRNAs (miRNAs) and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Sequence determinant of small RNA production by DICER

YY Lee, H Kim, VN Kim - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
RNA silencing relies on specific and efficient processing of double-stranded RNA by Dicer,
which yields microRNAs (miRNAs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs),. However, our …

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) …

Two-motif model illuminates DICER cleavage preferences

CT Le, TD Nguyen, TA Nguyen - Nucleic acids research, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In humans, DICER is a key regulator of gene expression through its production of miRNAs
and siRNAs by processing miRNA precursors (pre-miRNAs), short-hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) …

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 …

Dicer recognizes the 5′ end of RNA for efficient and accurate processing

JE Park, I Heo, Y Tian, DK Simanshu, H Chang, D Jee… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
A hallmark of RNA silencing is a class of approximately 22-nucleotide RNAs that are
processed from double-stranded RNA precursors by Dicer. Accurate processing by Dicer is …

[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 …