RNA sequencing: the teenage years

R Stark, M Grzelak, J Hadfield - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Over the past decade, RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) has become an indispensable tool for
transcriptome-wide analysis of differential gene expression and differential splicing of …

Co-transcriptional gene regulation in eukaryotes and prokaryotes

M Shine, J Gordon, L Schärfen, D Zigackova… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Many steps of RNA processing occur during transcription by RNA polymerases. Co-
transcriptional activities are deemed commonplace in prokaryotes, in which the lack of …

H3K4me3 regulates RNA polymerase II promoter-proximal pause-release

H Wang, Z Fan, PV Shliaha, M Miele, RC Hendrickson… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Trimethylation of histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4me3) is associated with transcriptional start sites
and has been proposed to regulate transcription initiation,. However, redundant functions of …

Enhancer–promoter interactions and transcription are largely maintained upon acute loss of CTCF, cohesin, WAPL or YY1

THS Hsieh, C Cattoglio, E Slobodyanyuk, AS Hansen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
It remains unclear why acute depletion of CTCF (CCCTC-binding factor) and cohesin only
marginally affects expression of most genes despite substantially perturbing three …

Damage-induced lncRNAs control the DNA damage response through interaction with DDRNAs at individual double-strand breaks

F Michelini, S Pitchiaya, V Vitelli, S Sharma, U Gioia… - Nature cell …, 2017 - nature.com
The DNA damage response (DDR) preserves genomic integrity. Small non-coding RNAs
termed DDRNAs are generated at DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) and are critical for …

Functional transcription promoters at DNA double-strand breaks mediate RNA-driven phase separation of damage-response factors

F Pessina, F Giavazzi, Y Yin, U Gioia, V Vitelli… - Nature cell …, 2019 - nature.com
Damage-induced long non-coding RNAs (dilncRNA) synthesized at DNA double-strand
breaks (DSBs) by RNA polymerase II are necessary for DNA-damage-response (DDR) focus …

DDM1-mediated R-loop resolution and H2A. Z exclusion facilitates heterochromatin formation in Arabidopsis

J Zhou, X Lei, S Shafiq, W Zhang, Q Li, K Li, J Zhu… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Programmed constitutive heterochromatin silencing is essential for eukaryotic genome
regulation, yet the initial step of this process is ambiguous. A large proportion of R-loops …

BRCA2 controls DNA: RNA hybrid level at DSBs by mediating RNase H2 recruitment

G D'Alessandro, DR Whelan, SM Howard… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are toxic DNA lesions, which, if not properly repaired,
may lead to genomic instability, cell death and senescence. Damage-induced long non …

[HTML][HTML] Distinctive patterns of transcription and RNA processing for human lincRNAs

M Schlackow, T Nojima, T Gomes, A Dhir… - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
Numerous long intervening noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) are generated from the mammalian
genome by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) transcription. Although multiple functions have been …

Widespread RNA editing dysregulation in brains from autistic individuals

SS Tran, HI Jun, JH Bahn, A Azghadi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Transcriptomic analyses of postmortem brains have begun to elucidate molecular
abnormalities in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, a crucial pathway involved in …