The regulation, functions and clinical relevance of arginine methylation

E Guccione, S Richard - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Methylation of arginine residues by protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) is involved
in the regulation of fundamental cellular processes, including transcription, RNA processing …

Regulatory R-loops as facilitators of gene expression and genome stability

C Niehrs, B Luke - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2020 - nature.com
R-loops are three-stranded structures that harbour an RNA–DNA hybrid and frequently form
during transcription. R-loop misregulation is associated with DNA damage, transcription …

R-loops as cellular regulators and genomic threats

MP Crossley, M Bocek, KA Cimprich - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
During transcription, the nascent RNA strand can base pair with its template DNA, displacing
the non-template strand as ssDNA and forming a structure called an R-loop. R-loops are …

[HTML][HTML] R loops: from physiological to pathological roles

T García-Muse, A Aguilera - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
DNA-RNA hybrids play a physiological role in cellular processes, but often, they represent
non-scheduled co-transcriptional structures with a negative impact on transcription …

The SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex helps resolve R-loop-mediated transcription–replication conflicts

A Bayona-Feliu, S Barroso, S Muñoz, A Aguilera - Nature genetics, 2021 - nature.com
ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers are commonly mutated in human cancer. Mammalian
SWI/SNF complexes comprise three conserved multisubunit chromatin remodelers (cBAF …

DNA damage and genome instability by G-quadruplex ligands are mediated by R loops in human cancer cells

A De Magis, SG Manzo, M Russo… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
G quadruplexes (G4s) and R loops are noncanonical DNA structures that can regulate basic
nuclear processes and trigger DNA damage, genome instability, and cell killing. By different …

[HTML][HTML] RNA polymerase III is required for the repair of DNA double-strand breaks by homologous recombination

S Liu, Y Hua, J Wang, L Li, J Yuan, B Zhang, Z Wang… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
End resection in homologous recombination (HR) and HR-mediated repair of DNA double-
strand breaks (DSBs) removes several kilobases from 5′ strands of DSBs, but 3′ strands …

Regulation of long non-coding RNAs and genome dynamics by the RNA surveillance machinery

L Nair, H Chung, U Basu - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2020 - nature.com
Much of the mammalian genome is transcribed, generating long non-coding RNAs
(lncRNAs) that can undergo post-transcriptional surveillance whereby only a subset of the …

R-loop proximity proteomics identifies a role of DDX41 in transcription-associated genomic instability

T Mosler, F Conte, GMC Longo, I Mikicic… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Transcription poses a threat to genomic stability through the formation of R-loops that can
obstruct progression of replication forks. R-loops are three-stranded nucleic acid structures …

Transcription-mediated replication hindrance: a major driver of genome instability

B Gómez-González, A Aguilera - Genes & development, 2019 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Genome replication involves dealing with obstacles that can result from DNA damage but
also from chromatin alterations, topological stress, tightly bound proteins or non-B DNA …