Non-coding RNAs in human health and disease: potential function as biomarkers and therapeutic targets

T Loganathan, GP Doss C - Functional & integrative genomics, 2023 - Springer
Human diseases have been a critical threat from the beginning of human history. Knowing
the origin, course of action and treatment of any disease state is essential. A microscopic …

Enhancer RNAs and regulated transcriptional programs

MTY Lam, W Li, MG Rosenfeld, CK Glass - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2014 - cell.com
A large portion of the human genome is transcribed into RNAs without known protein-coding
functions, far outnumbering coding transcription units. Extensive studies of long noncoding …

In vivo single-molecule analysis reveals COOLAIR RNA structural diversity

M Yang, P Zhu, J Cheema, R Bloomer, P Mikulski… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Cellular RNAs are heterogeneous with respect to their alternative processing and secondary
structures, but the functional importance of this complexity is still poorly understood. A set of …

MEG3 long noncoding RNA regulates the TGF-β pathway genes through formation of RNA–DNA triplex structures

T Mondal, S Subhash, R Vaid, S Enroth, S Uday… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) regulate gene expression by association with chromatin,
but how they target chromatin remains poorly understood. We have used chromatin RNA …

The RNA Atlas expands the catalog of human non-coding RNAs

L Lorenzi, HS Chiu, F Avila Cobos, S Gross… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Existing compendia of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) are incomplete, in part because they are
derived almost exclusively from small and polyadenylated RNAs. Here we present a more …

[HTML][HTML] The tissue-specific lncRNA Fendrr is an essential regulator of heart and body wall development in the mouse

P Grote, L Wittler, D Hendrix, F Koch, S Währisch… - Developmental cell, 2013 - cell.com
The histone-modifying complexes PRC2 and TrxG/MLL play pivotal roles in determining the
activation state of genes controlling pluripotency, lineage commitment, and cell …

Pan-cancer analysis of lncRNA regulation supports their targeting of cancer genes in each tumor context

HS Chiu, S Somvanshi, E Patel, TW Chen, VP Singh… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are commonly dysregulated in tumors, but only a handful
are known to play pathophysiological roles in cancer. We inferred lncRNAs that dysregulate …

Transcriptional regulatory functions of nuclear long noncoding RNAs

KW Vance, CP Ponting - Trends in Genetics, 2014 - cell.com
Several nuclear localised intergenic long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been ascribed
regulatory roles in transcriptional control and their number is growing rapidly. Initially, these …

LncRNA Khps1 regulates expression of the proto-oncogene SPHK1 via triplex-mediated changes in chromatin structure

A Postepska-Igielska, A Giwojna, L Gasri-Plotnitsky… - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Although thousands of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been discovered, very little is
known about their mode of action. Here we functionally characterize an E2F1-regulated …

RNA-DNA triplex formation by long noncoding RNAs

Y Li, J Syed, H Sugiyama - Cell chemical biology, 2016 - cell.com
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play a pivotal role in the regulation of biological
processes through various mechanisms that are not fully understood. Proposed …