Rock, scissors, paper: How RNA structure informs function

SM Assmann, HL Chou, PC Bevilacqua - The Plant Cell, 2023 - academic.oup.com
RNA can fold back on itself to adopt a wide range of structures. These range from relatively
simple hairpins to intricate 3D folds and can be accompanied by regulatory interactions with …

Alternative splicing in plants: Current knowledge and future directions for assessing the biological relevance of splice variants

RS Tognacca, FS Rodríguez, FE Aballay… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Alternative splicing is an important regulatory process that produces multiple transcripts from
a single gene, significantly modulating the transcriptome and potentially the proteome …

SQANTI3: curation of long-read transcriptomes for accurate identification of known and novel isoforms

FJ Pardo-Palacios, A Arzalluz-Luque, L Kondratova… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
SQANTI3 is a tool designed for the quality control, curation and annotation of long-read
transcript models obtained with third-generation sequencing technologies. Leveraging its …

LncRNA FLAIL affects alternative splicing and represses flowering in Arabidopsis

Y Jin, M Ivanov, AN Dittrich, ADL Nelson… - The EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
How the noncoding genome affects cellular functions is a key biological question. A
particular challenge is to distinguish the effects of noncoding DNA elements from long …

Cotranscriptional RNA processing and modification in plants

S Marquardt, E Petrillo, PA Manavella - The Plant Cell, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The activities of RNA polymerases shape the epigenetic landscape of genomes with
profound consequences for genome integrity and gene expression. A fundamental event …

Do not panic: An intron-centric guide to alternative splicing

E Petrillo - The Plant Cell, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This review is an attempt to establish concepts of splicing and alternative splicing giving
proper relevance to introns, the key actors in this mechanism. It might also work as a guide …

Toward a systems view on RNA-binding proteins and associated RNAs in plants: guilt by association

JL Mateos, D Staiger - The Plant Cell, 2023 - academic.oup.com
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) have a broad impact on most biochemical, physiological, and
developmental processes in a plant's life. RBPs engage in an on-off relationship with their …

Leveraging Single-Cell Populations to Uncover the Genetic Basis of Complex Traits

MAA Minow, AP Marand… - Annual review of genetics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The ease and throughput of single-cell genomics have steadily improved, and its current
trajectory suggests that surveying single-cell populations will become routine. We discuss …

SWAP1-SFPS-RRC1 splicing factor complex modulates pre-mRNA splicing to promote photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis

PK Kathare, R Xin, AS Ganesan… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Light signals perceived by a group of photoreceptors have profound effects on the
physiology, growth, and development of plants. The red/far-red light–absorbing …

Long-read direct RNA sequencing reveals epigenetic regulation of chimeric gene-transposon transcripts in Arabidopsis thaliana

J Berthelier, L Furci, S Asai, M Sadykova… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are accumulated in both intergenic and intragenic regions in
plant genomes. Intragenic TEs often act as regulatory elements of associated genes and are …