Mechanisms of lncRNA biogenesis as revealed by nascent transcriptomics

T Nojima, NJ Proudfoot - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2022 - nature.com
Mammalian genomes express two principal gene categories through RNA polymerase II-
mediated transcription: protein-coding transcription units and non-coding RNA transcription …

Alternative cleavage and polyadenylation in health and disease

AJ Gruber, M Zavolan - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Most human genes have multiple sites at which RNA 3ʹ end cleavage and polyadenylation
can occur, enabling the expression of distinct transcript isoforms under different conditions …

Mouse totipotent stem cells captured and maintained through spliceosomal repression

H Shen, M Yang, S Li, J Zhang, B Peng, C Wang… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Since establishment of the first embryonic stem cells (ESCs), in vitro culture of totipotent cells
functionally and molecularly comparable with in vivo blastomeres with embryonic and …

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 …

Exon-intron circular RNAs regulate transcription in the nucleus

Z Li, C Huang, C Bao, L Chen, M Lin, X Wang… - Nature structural & …, 2015 - nature.com
Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) have numerous roles in development and disease, and one of
the prominent roles is to regulate gene expression. A vast number of circular RNAs …

U1 snRNP regulates cancer cell migration and invasion in vitro

JM Oh, CC Venters, C Di, AM Pinto, L Wan… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Stimulated cells and cancer cells have widespread shortening of mRNA 3'-untranslated
regions (3'UTRs) and switches to shorter mRNA isoforms due to usage of more proximal …

A census of human RNA-binding proteins

S Gerstberger, M Hafner, T Tuschl - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Post-transcriptional gene regulation (PTGR) concerns processes involved in the maturation,
transport, stability and translation of coding and non-coding RNAs. RNA-binding proteins …

Knowing when to stop: Transcription termination on protein-coding genes by eukaryotic RNAPII

JB Rodríguez-Molina, S West, LA Passmore - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Gene expression is controlled in a dynamic and regulated manner to allow for the consistent
and steady expression of some proteins as well as the rapidly changing production of other …

Systematic discovery of Xist RNA binding proteins

C Chu, QC Zhang, ST Da Rocha, RA Flynn… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) function with associated proteins to effect complex structural
and regulatory outcomes. To reveal the composition and dynamics of specific noncoding …

Splicing and transcription touch base: co-transcriptional spliceosome assembly and function

L Herzel, DSM Ottoz, T Alpert… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
Several macromolecular machines collaborate to produce eukaryotic messenger RNA. RNA
polymerase II (Pol II) translocates along genes that are up to millions of base pairs in length …