RISC assembly: Coordination between small RNAs and Argonaute proteins

H Kobayashi, Y Tomari - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2016 - Elsevier
Non-coding RNAs generally form ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes with their partner
proteins to exert their functions. Small RNAs, including microRNAs, small interfering RNAs …

Role of miRNAs in neurodegeneration: From disease cause to tools of biomarker discovery and therapeutics

B Roy, E Lee, T Li, M Rampersaud - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Neurodegenerative diseases originate from neuronal loss in the central nervous system
(CNS). These debilitating diseases progress with age and have become common due to an …

Mechanisms of control of microRNA biogenesis

BN Davis-Dusenbery, A Hata - The journal of biochemistry, 2010 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of∼ 22 nt non-coding RNAs that control diverse biological
functions in animals, plants and unicellular eukaryotes by promoting degradation or …

The rough endoplasmatic reticulum is a central nucleation site of siRNA‐mediated RNA silencing

L Stalder, W Heusermann, L Sokol, D Trojer… - The EMBO …, 2013 - embopress.org
Despite progress in mechanistic understanding of the RNA interference (RNAi) pathways,
the subcellular sites of RNA silencing remain under debate. Here we show that loading of …

Structural foundations of RNA silencing by Argonaute

J Sheu-Gruttadauria, IJ MacRae - Journal of molecular biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Nearly every cell in the human body contains a set of programmable gene-silencing proteins
named Argonaute. Argonaute proteins mediate gene regulation by small RNAs and thereby …

Systematic evaluation of antibody-mediated siRNA delivery using an industrial platform of THIOMAB–siRNA conjugates

TL Cuellar, D Barnes, C Nelson, J Tanguay… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Delivery of siRNA is a key hurdle to realizing the therapeutic promise of RNAi. By targeting
internalizing cell surface antigens, antibody–siRNA complexes provide a possible solution …

Regulation of MicroRNA Biogenesis: A miRiad of mechanisms

BN Davis, A Hata - Cell Communication and Signaling, 2009 - Springer
Abstract microRNAs are small, non-coding RNAs that influence diverse biological functions
through the repression of target genes during normal development and pathological …

On track with P-bodies

M Kulkarni, S Ozgur, G Stoecklin - Biochemical Society …, 2010 - portlandpress.com
P-bodies (processing bodies) are cytoplasmic foci visible by light microscopy in somatic
cells of vertebrate and invertebrate origin as well as in yeast, plants and trypanosomes. At …

MicroRNA in cancer: the involvement of aberrant microRNA biogenesis regulatory pathways

BN Davis-Dusenbery, A Hata - Genes & cancer, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, noncoding RNAs that influence diverse biological
outcomes through the repression of target genes during normal development and …

Akt-mediated phosphorylation of argonaute 2 downregulates cleavage and upregulates translational repression of MicroRNA targets

SR Horman, MM Janas, C Litterst, B Wang, IJ MacRae… - Molecular cell, 2013 - cell.com
A high-throughput RNA interference (RNAi) screen targeting 542 genes of the human
kinome was used to discover regulators of RNAi. Here we report that the proto-oncogene Akt …