Life of RISC: Formation, action, and degradation of RNA-induced silencing complex

H Iwakawa, Y Tomari - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Small RNAs regulate a wide variety of biological processes by repressing the expression of
target genes at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. To achieve these …

Regulation of microRNA function in animals

LFR Gebert, IJ MacRae - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Since their serendipitous discovery in nematodes, microRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as
key regulators of biological processes in animals. These small RNAs form complex networks …

[HTML][HTML] Metazoan micrornas

DP Bartel - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are∼ 22 nt RNAs that direct posttranscriptional repression of mRNA
targets in diverse eukaryotic lineages. In humans and other mammals, these small RNAs …

[HTML][HTML] A network of noncoding regulatory RNAs acts in the mammalian brain

B Kleaveland, CY Shi, J Stefano, DP Bartel - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) play increasingly appreciated gene-regulatory roles. Here, we
describe a regulatory network centered on four ncRNAs—a long ncRNA, a circular RNA …

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 …

Structural basis for guide RNA processing and seed-dependent DNA targeting by CRISPR-Cas12a

DC Swarts, J van der Oost, M Jinek - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
The CRISPR-associated protein Cas12a (Cpf1), which has been repurposed for genome
editing, possesses two distinct nuclease activities: endoribonuclease activity for processing …

[HTML][HTML] What are the 100 most cited fungal genera?

CS Bhunjun, YJ Chen, C Phukhamsakda… - Studies in …, 2024 - ingentaconnect.com
The global diversity of fungi has been estimated between 2 to 11 million species, of which
only about 155 000 have been named. Most fungi are invisible to the unaided eye, but they …

Regulation of microRNA biogenesis

M Ha, VN Kim - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2014 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that function as guide molecules in RNA
silencing. Targeting most protein-coding transcripts, miRNAs are involved in nearly all …

Pairing beyond the seed supports microRNA targeting specificity

JP Broughton, MT Lovci, JL Huang, GW Yeo… - Molecular cell, 2016 - cell.com
To identify endogenous miRNA-target sites, we isolated AGO-bound RNAs from
Caenorhabditis elegans by individual-nucleotide resolution crosslinking …

A long look at short prokaryotic Argonautes

B Koopal, SK Mutte, DC Swarts - Trends in cell biology, 2023 - cell.com
Argonaute proteins (Agos) use small 15–30 nucleotide-long guides to bind and/or cleave
complementary target nucleic acids. Eukaryotic Agos mediate RNA-guided RNA silencing …