Network regulation of microRNA biogenesis and target interaction

S Komatsu, H Kitai, HI Suzuki - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are versatile, post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression.
Canonical miRNAs are generated through the two-step DROSHA-and DICER-mediated …

The miRNA–target interactions: An underestimated intricacy

C Diener, A Keller, E Meese - Nucleic Acids Research, 2024 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play indispensable roles in posttranscriptional gene regulation. Their
cellular regulatory impact is determined not solely by their sheer number, which likely …

Denaturing purifications demonstrate that PRC2 and other widely reported chromatin proteins do not appear to bind directly to RNA in vivo

JK Guo, MR Blanco, WG Walkup, G Bonesteele… - Molecular cell, 2024 - cell.com
Summary Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is reported to bind to many RNAs and
has become a central player in reports of how long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) regulate …

ZSWIM8 destabilizes many murine microRNAs and is required for proper embryonic growth and development

CY Shi, LE Elcavage, RR Chivukula, J Stefano… - Genome …, 2023 - genome.cshlp.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) pair to sites in mRNAs to direct the degradation of these RNA
transcripts. Conversely, certain RNA transcripts can direct the degradation of particular …

Multiscale profiling of protease activity in cancer

AP Amini, JD Kirkpatrick, CS Wang, AM Jaeger… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Diverse processes in cancer are mediated by enzymes, which most proximally exert their
function through their activity. High-fidelity methods to profile enzyme activity are therefore …

HaloTag‐Based Reporters for Fluorescence Imaging and Biosensing

A Cook, F Walterspiel, C Deo - ChemBioChem, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Visualizing the structure and dynamics of biomolecules is critical to understand biological
function, and requires methods to fluorescently label targets of interest in their cellular …

TRERNA1 upregulation mediated by HBx promotes sorafenib resistance and cell proliferation in HCC via targeting NRAS by sponging miR-22-3p

W Song, C Zheng, M Liu, Y Xu, Y Qian, Z Zhang, H Su… - Molecular Therapy, 2021 - cell.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is among the most common malignancies and has an
unfavorable prognosis. The hepatitis B virus-encoded X (HBx) protein is closely associated …

Convergence of multiple RNA-silencing pathways on GW182/TNRC6

T Welte, A Goulois, MB Stadler, D Hess, C Soneson… - Molecular Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The RNA-binding protein TRIM71/LIN-41 is a phylogenetically conserved developmental
regulator that functions in mammalian stem cell reprogramming, brain development, and …

Oncogenic K-Ras suppresses global miRNA function

B Shui, TS Beyett, Z Chen, X Li, G La Rocca… - Molecular Cell, 2023 - cell.com
K-Ras frequently acquires gain-of-function mutations (K-Ras G12D being the most common)
that trigger significant transcriptomic and proteomic changes to drive tumorigenesis …

MicroRNA regulation of critical retinal pigment epithelial functions

SW Du, K Palczewski - Trends in neurosciences, 2022 - cell.com
MicroRNAs are short, evolutionarily conserved noncoding RNAs that are critical for the
control of normal cellular physiology. In the retina, photoreceptors are highly specialized …