Regulation of gene expression by cis-acting long non-coding RNAs

N Gil, I Ulitsky - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are diverse transcription products emanating from
thousands of loci in mammalian genomes. Cis-acting lncRNAs, which constitute a …

LncRNA-mediated DNA methylation: an emerging mechanism in cancer and beyond

W Huang, H Li, Q Yu, W Xiao, DO Wang - Journal of Experimental & …, 2022 - Springer
DNA methylation is one of the most important epigenetic mechanisms to regulate gene
expression, which is highly dynamic during development and specifically maintained in …

Long non‐coding RNAs in development and disease: conservation to mechanisms

I Tsagakis, K Douka, I Birds… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Our genomes contain the blueprint of what makes us human and many indications as to why
we develop disease. Until the last 10 years, most studies had focussed on protein‐coding …

Detection of RNA–DNA binding sites in long noncoding RNAs

CC Kuo, S Hänzelmann, N Sentürk Cetin… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) can act as scaffolds that promote the interaction of
proteins, RNA, and DNA. There is increasing evidence of sequence-specific interactions of …

KCNQ1OT1 promotes genome-wide transposon repression by guiding RNA–DNA triplexes and HP1 binding

X Zhang, Q Jiang, J Li, S Zhang, Y Cao, X Xia… - Nature Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Transposon (de) repression and heterochromatin reorganization are dynamically regulated
during cell fate determination and are hallmarks of cellular senescence. However, whether …

Noncoding RNA as an influential epigenetic modulator with promising roles in cancer therapeutics

L Roy, O Chatterjee, D Bose, A Roy, S Chatterjee - Drug Discovery Today, 2023 - Elsevier
The epigenetic landscape has an important role in cellular homeostasis and its deregulation
leads to cancer. Noncoding (nc) RNA networks function as major regulators of cellular …

Insights into the role of long non-coding RNAs in DNA methylation mediated transcriptional regulation

Z Yang, F Xu, AE Teschendorff, Y Zhao… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
DNA methylation is one of the most important epigenetic mechanisms that governing
regulation of gene expression, aberrant DNA methylation patterns are strongly associated …

LncRNA functions as a new emerging epigenetic factor in determining the fate of stem cells

J Chen, Y Wang, C Wang, JF Hu, W Li - Frontiers in genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Pluripotent stem cells have broad applications in regenerative medicine and offer ideal
models for understanding the biological process of embryonic development and specific …

mRNA translational specialization by RBPMS presets the competence for cardiac commitment in hESCs

D Bartsch, K Kalamkar, G Ahuja, JW Lackmann… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The blueprints of developing organs are preset at the early stages of embryogenesis.
Transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms are proposed to preset developmental …

Regulation of CCL2 expression in human vascular endothelial cells by a neighboring divergently transcribed long noncoding RNA

N Khyzha, M Khor, PV DiStefano… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease that is driven, in part, by activation of
vascular endothelial cells (ECs). In response to inflammatory stimuli, the nuclear factor …