[HTML][HTML] Principles for targeting RNA with drug-like small molecules

KD Warner, CE Hajdin, KM Weeks - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2018 - nature.com
RNA molecules are essential for cellular information transfer and gene regulation, and
RNAs have been implicated in many human diseases. Messenger and non-coding RNAs …

The how and why of lncRNA function: an innate immune perspective

EK Robinson, S Covarrubias, S Carpenter - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2020 - Elsevier
Next-generation sequencing has provided a more complete picture of the composition of the
human transcriptome indicating that much of the “blueprint” is a vastness of poorly …

3D RNA and functional interactions from evolutionary couplings

C Weinreb, AJ Riesselman, JB Ingraham, T Gross… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Non-coding RNAs are ubiquitous, but the discovery of new RNA gene sequences far
outpaces the research on the structure and functional interactions of these RNA gene …

Direct-Coupling Analysis of nucleotide coevolution facilitates RNA secondary and tertiary structure prediction

E De Leonardis, B Lutz, S Ratz, S Cocco… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Despite the biological importance of non-coding RNA, their structural characterization
remains challenging. Making use of the rapidly growing sequence databases, we analyze …

Translation: the universal structural core of life

CR Bernier, AS Petrov, NA Kovacs… - Molecular Biology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Universal Gene Set of Life (UGSL) is common to genomes of all extant
organisms. The UGSL is small, consisting of< 100 genes, and is dominated by genes …

Specificity between lactobacilli and hymenopteran hosts is the exception rather than the rule

QS McFrederick, JJ Cannone, RR Gutell… - Applied and …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT Lactobacilli (Lactobacillales: Lactobacillaceae) are well known for their roles in
food fermentation, as probiotics, and in human health, but they can also be dominant …

In-cell SHAPE reveals that free 30S ribosome subunits are in the inactive state

JL McGinnis, Q Liu, CA Lavender… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
It was shown decades ago that purified 30S ribosome subunits readily interconvert between
“active” and “inactive” conformations in a switch that involves changes in the functionally …

RNA structural constraints in the evolution of the influenza A virus genome NP segment

AP Gultyaev, A Tsyganov-Bodounov, MIJ Spronken… - RNA biology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Conserved RNA secondary structures were predicted in the nucleoprotein (NP) segment of
the influenza A virus genome using comparative sequence and structure analysis. A number …

Subtype-specific structural constraints in the evolution of influenza A virus hemagglutinin genes

AP Gultyaev, MI Spronken, M Richard… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The influenza A virus genome consists of eight RNA segments. RNA structures within these
segments and complementary (cRNA) and protein-coding mRNAs may play a role in virus …

Variable region sequences influence 16S rRNA performance

N Bose, SD Moore - Microbiology Spectrum, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT 16S rRNA gene sequences are commonly analyzed for taxonomic and
phylogenetic studies because they contain variable regions that can help distinguish …