History, discovery, and classification of lncRNAs

J Jarroux, A Morillon, M Pinskaya - Long non coding RNA biology, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The RNA World Hypothesis suggests that prebiotic life revolved around RNA
instead of DNA and proteins. Although modern cells have changed significantly in 4 billion …

The Landscape of long noncoding RNA classification

GS Laurent, C Wahlestedt, P Kapranov - Trends in genetics, 2015 - cell.com
Advances in the depth and quality of transcriptome sequencing have revealed many new
classes of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs). lncRNA classification has mushroomed to …

Targeting long non-coding RNA to therapeutically upregulate gene expression

C Wahlestedt - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2013 - nature.com
The majority of currently available drugs and tool compounds exhibit an inhibitory
mechanism of action and there is a relative lack of pharmaceutical agents that are capable …

Specific expression of long noncoding RNAs in the mouse brain

TR Mercer, ME Dinger, SM Sunkin… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
A major proportion of the mammalian transcriptome comprises long RNAs that have little or
no protein-coding capacity (ncRNAs). Only a handful of such transcripts have been …

Roles of long noncoding RNAs in brain development, functional diversification and neurodegenerative diseases

P Wu, X Zuo, H Deng, X Liu, L Liu, A Ji - Brain research bulletin, 2013 - Elsevier
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been attracting immense research interest, while
only a handful of lncRNAs have been characterized thoroughly. Their involvement in the …

lncRNAdb: a reference database for long noncoding RNAs

PP Amaral, MB Clark, DK Gascoigne… - Nucleic acids …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Large numbers of long RNAs with little or no protein-coding potential [long noncoding RNAs
(lncRNAs)] are being identified in eukaryotes. In parallel, increasing data describing the …

Cis-acting noncoding RNAs: friends and foes

S Guil, M Esteller - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2012 - nature.com
In recent years, the number and types of known functional noncoding RNAs have increased
considerably. A subset of both short-and long-sized species are known to be involved in the …

Long noncoding RNAs in mouse embryonic stem cell pluripotency and differentiation

ME Dinger, PP Amaral, TR Mercer, KC Pang… - Genome …, 2008 - genome.cshlp.org
The transcriptional networks that regulate embryonic stem (ES) cell pluripotency and lineage
specification are the subject of considerable attention. To date such studies have focused …

The reality of pervasive transcription

MB Clark, PP Amaral, FJ Schlesinger, ME Dinger… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
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The expanding RNA polymerase III transcriptome

G Dieci, G Fiorino, M Castelnuovo, M Teichmann… - TRENDS in …, 2007 - cell.com
The role of RNA polymerase (Pol) III in eukaryotic transcription is commonly thought of as
being restricted to a small set of highly expressed, housekeeping non–protein-coding (nc) …