Regulation of microRNA function in animals

LFR Gebert, IJ MacRae - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Since their serendipitous discovery in nematodes, microRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as
key regulators of biological processes in animals. These small RNAs form complex networks …

Overview of microRNA biogenesis, mechanisms of actions, and circulation

J O'Brien, H Hayder, Y Zayed, C Peng - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of non-coding RNAs that play important roles in regulating
gene expression. The majority of miRNAs are transcribed from DNA sequences into primary …

The biochemical basis of microRNA targeting efficacy

SE McGeary, KS Lin, CY Shi, TM Pham, N Bisaria… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short RNAs that guide repression of mRNA
targets. Each miRNA associates with an Argonaute (AGO) protein to form a complex in …

Exosomes—beyond stem cells for restorative therapy in stroke and neurological injury

ZG Zhang, B Buller, M Chopp - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2019 - nature.com
Stroke is a leading cause of disability worldwide, and brain injuries devastate patients and
their families, but currently no drugs on the market promote neurological recovery. Limited …

What are 3′ UTRs doing?

C Mayr - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2019 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
SUMMARY 3′ untranslated regions (3′ UTRs) of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) are best
known to regulate mRNA-based processes, such as mRNA localization, mRNA stability, and …

Endogenous microRNA sponges: evidence and controversy

DW Thomson, ME Dinger - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
The competitive endogenous RNA (ceRNA) hypothesis proposes that transcripts with
shared microRNA (miRNA) binding sites compete for post-transcriptional control. This …

Alternative polyadenylation of mRNA precursors

B Tian, JL Manley - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
Alternative polyadenylation (APA) is an RNA-processing mechanism that generates distinct
3′ termini on mRNAs and other RNA polymerase II transcripts. It is widespread across all …

Predicting effective microRNA target sites in mammalian mRNAs

V Agarwal, GW Bell, JW Nam, DP Bartel - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
MicroRNA targets are often recognized through pairing between the miRNA seed region
and complementary sites within target mRNAs, but not all of these canonical sites are …

LncBook 2.0: integrating human long non-coding RNAs with multi-omics annotations

Z Li, L Liu, C Feng, Y Qin, J Xiao… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
LncBook, a comprehensive resource of human long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), has been
used in a wide range of lncRNA studies across various biological contexts. Here, we present …

Overview of microRNA biology

AM Mohr, JL Mott - Seminars in liver disease, 2015 - thieme-connect.com
In considering an overview of microRNA biology, it is useful to consider microRNAs as a part
of cellular communication. At the simplest level, microRNAs act to decrease the expression …