RNA G-quadruplexes in biology: principles and molecular mechanisms

MM Fay, SM Lyons, P Ivanov - Journal of molecular biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract G-quadruplexes (G4s) are extremely stable DNA or RNA secondary structures
formed by sequences rich in guanine. These structures are implicated in many essential …

Intron retention as a component of regulated gene expression programs

AG Jacob, CWJ Smith - Human genetics, 2017 - Springer
Intron retention has long been an exemplar of regulated splicing with case studies of
individual events serving as models that provided key mechanistic insights into the process …

Specific G-quadruplex ligands modulate the alternative splicing of Bcl-X

C Weldon, JG Dacanay, V Gokhale… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Sequences with the potential to form RNA G-quadruplexes (G4s) are common in
mammalian introns, especially in the proximity of the 5′ splice site (5′ SS). However, the …

Chemical Biology of Double Helical and Non-Double Helical Nucleic Acids: “To B or Not To B, That Is the Question”

N Sugimoto, T Endoh, S Takahashi… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Nucleic acids form not only the canonical double helix (duplex) but also the non-canonical
(non-double helix) structures such as triplexes, G-quadruplexes, and i-motifs. The formation …

Real-time monitoring of G-quadruplex formation during transcription

T Endoh, AB Rode, S Takahashi, Y Kataoka… - Analytical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Cotranscriptional folding of an RNA transcript enables formation of metastable RNA
structures. Thermodynamic and kinetic properties of RNA G-quadruplex formation have …

Control of the polyamine biosynthesis pathway by G2-quadruplexes

HL Lightfoot, T Hagen, A Cléry, FHT Allain, J Hall - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
G-quadruplexes are naturally-occurring structures found in RNAs and DNAs. Regular RNA
G-quadruplexes are highly stable due to stacked planar arrangements connected by short …

The role of short RNA loops in recognition of a single-hairpin exon derived from a mammalian-wide interspersed repeat

J Kralovicova, A Patel, M Searle, I Vorechovsky - RNA biology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Splice-site selection is controlled by secondary structure through sequestration or
approximation of splicing signals in primary transcripts but the exact role of even the …

Understanding Insulin in the Age of Precision Medicine and Big Data: Under-Explored Nature of Genomics

TW Cook, AM Wilstermann, JT Mitchell, NE Arnold… - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Insulin is amongst the human genome's most well-studied genes/proteins due to its
connection to metabolic health. Within this article, we review literature and data to build a …

Antisense oligonucleotide development for the selective modulation of CYP3A5 in renal disease

KA Lidberg, AJ Annalora, M Jozic, DJ Elson, L Wang… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
CYP3A5 is the primary CYP3A subfamily enzyme expressed in the human kidney and its
aberrant expression may contribute to a broad spectrum of renal disorders …

tRNA Shifts the G‐quadruplex–Hairpin Conformational Equilibrium in RNA towards the Hairpin Conformer

AB Rode, T Endoh, N Sugimoto - Angewandte Chemie, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐coding RNAs play important roles in cellular homeostasis and are involved in many
human diseases including cancer. Intermolecular RNA–RNA interactions are the basis for …