Implications of the hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal phenotype in metastasis

MK Jolly, M Boareto, B Huang, D Jia, M Lu… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Transitions between epithelial and mesenchymal phenotypes–the epithelial to
mesenchymal transition (EMT) and its reverse the mesenchymal to epithelial transition …

Bacterial small RNA regulators: versatile roles and rapidly evolving variations

S Gottesman, G Storz - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2011 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Small RNA regulators (sRNAs) have been identified in a wide range of bacteria and found to
play critical regulatory roles in many processes. The major families of sRNAs include true …

MicroRNA-based regulation of epithelial–hybrid–mesenchymal fate determination

M Lu, MK Jolly, H Levine… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Forward and backward transitions between epithelial and mesenchymal phenotypes play
crucial roles in embryonic development and tissue repair. Aberrantly regulated transitions …

Integration of bacterial small RNAs in regulatory networks

M Nitzan, R Rehani, H Margalit - Annual review of biophysics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Small RNAs (sRNAs) are central regulators of gene expression in bacteria, controlling target
genes posttranscriptionally by base pairing with their mRNAs. sRNAs are involved in many …

[HTML][HTML] A 3′ external transcribed spacer in a tRNA transcript acts as a sponge for small RNAs to prevent transcriptional noise

D Lalaouna, MC Carrier, S Semsey, JS Brouard… - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
During ribosomal and transfer RNA maturation, external transcribed spacer (ETS) and
internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences are excised and, as non-functional by-products …

Base pairing small RNAs and their roles in global regulatory networks

CL Beisel, G Storz - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Bacteria use a range of RNA regulators collectively termed small RNAs (sRNAs) to help
respond to changes in the environment. Many sRNAs regulate their target mRNAs through …

Simplified models of biological networks

K Sneppen, S Krishna, S Semsey - Annual review of biophysics, 2010 - annualreviews.org
The function of living cells is controlled by complex regulatory networks that are built of a
wide diversity of interacting molecular components. The sheer size and intricacy of …

Multiple factors dictate target selection by Hfq‐binding small RNAs

CL Beisel, TB Updegrove, BJ Janson, G Storz - The EMBO journal, 2012 - embopress.org
Hfq‐binding small RNAs (sRNAs) in bacteria modulate the stability and translational
efficiency of target mRNAs through limited base‐pairing interactions. While these sRNAs are …

Structurally robust biological networks

F Blanchini, E Franco - BMC systems biology, 2011 - Springer
Background The molecular circuitry of living organisms performs remarkably robust
regulatory tasks, despite the often intrinsic variability of its components. A large body of …

Conditional cooperativity of toxin-antitoxin regulation can mediate bistability between growth and dormancy

I Cataudella, K Sneppen, K Gerdes… - PLoS computational …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Many toxin-antitoxin operons are regulated by the toxin/antitoxin ratio by mechanisms
collectively coined “conditional cooperativity”. Toxin and antitoxin form heteromers with …