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 …

A network-biology perspective of microRNA function and dysfunction in cancer

CP Bracken, HS Scott, GJ Goodall - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) participate in most aspects of cellular differentiation and homeostasis,
and consequently have roles in many pathologies, including cancer. These small non …

mirDIP 4.1—integrative database of human microRNA target predictions

T Tokar, C Pastrello, AEM Rossos… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs are important regulators of gene expression, achieved by binding to the gene to
be regulated. Even with modern high-throughput technologies, it is laborious and expensive …

Predicting effective microRNA target sites in mammalian mRNAs

V Agarwal, GW Bell, JW Nam, DP Bartel - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
MicroRNA targets are often recognized through pairing between the miRNA seed region
and complementary sites within target mRNAs, but not all of these canonical sites are …

Tools for sequence-based miRNA target prediction: what to choose?

ÁL Riffo-Campos, I Riquelme… - International journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are defined as small non-coding RNAs~ 22 nt in length. They regulate
gene expression at a post-transcriptional level through complementary base pairing with the …

Therapeutic targeting of microRNAs: current status and future challenges

Z Li, TM Rana - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2014 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are evolutionarily conserved small non-coding RNAs that have crucial
roles in regulating gene expression. Increasing evidence supports a role for miRNAs in …

RNAInter in 2020: RNA interactome repository with increased coverage and annotation

Y Lin, T Liu, T Cui, Z Wang, Y Zhang, P Tan… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Research on RNA-associated interactions has exploded in recent years, and increasing
numbers of studies are not limited to RNA–RNA and RNA–protein interactions but also …

Identification and consequences of miRNA–target interactions—beyond repression of gene expression

J Hausser, M Zavolan - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Comparative genomics analyses and high-throughput experimental studies indicate that a
microRNA (miRNA) binds to hundreds of sites across the transcriptome. Although the …

The multiMiR R package and database: integration of microRNA–target interactions along with their disease and drug associations

Y Ru, KJ Kechris, B Tabakoff, P Hoffman… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract microRNAs (miRNAs) regulate expression by promoting degradation or repressing
translation of target transcripts. miRNA target sites have been catalogued in databases …

miRNA–target chimeras reveal miRNA 3′-end pairing as a major determinant of Argonaute target specificity

MJ Moore, TKH Scheel, JM Luna, CY Park… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract microRNAs (miRNAs) act as sequence-specific guides for Argonaute (AGO)
proteins, which mediate posttranscriptional silencing of target messenger RNAs. Despite …