Long non-coding RNAs: definitions, functions, challenges and recommendations

JS Mattick, PP Amaral, P Carninci… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Genes specifying long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) occupy a large fraction of the genomes
of complex organisms. The term 'lncRNAs' encompasses RNA polymerase I (Pol I), Pol II …

Mechanisms of enhancer action: the known and the unknown

A Panigrahi, BW O'Malley - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Differential gene expression mechanisms ensure cellular differentiation and plasticity to
shape ontogenetic and phylogenetic diversity of cell types. A key regulator of differential …

Determinants of enhancer and promoter activities of regulatory elements

R Andersson, A Sandelin - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
The proper activities of enhancers and gene promoters are essential for coordinated
transcription within a cell. Although diverse methodologies have been developed to identify …

Biomolecular condensates in the nucleus

BR Sabari, A Dall'Agnese, RA Young - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Nuclear processes such as DNA replication, transcription, and RNA processing each
depend on the concerted action of many different protein and RNA molecules. How …

Enhancer redundancy in development and disease

EZ Kvon, R Waymack, M Gad, Z Wunderlich - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Shadow enhancers are seemingly redundant transcriptional cis-regulatory elements that
regulate the same gene and drive overlapping expression patterns. Recent studies have …

Eukaryotic core promoters and the functional basis of transcription initiation

V Haberle, A Stark - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract RNA polymerase II (Pol II) core promoters are specialized DNA sequences at
transcription start sites of protein-coding and non-coding genes that support the assembly of …

JASPAR 2018: update of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles and its web framework

A Khan, O Fornes, A Stigliani, M Gheorghe… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract JASPAR (http://jaspar. genereg. net) is an open-access database of curated, non-
redundant transcription factor (TF)-binding profiles stored as position frequency matrices …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancer RNA m6A methylation facilitates transcriptional condensate formation and gene activation

JH Lee, R Wang, F Xiong, J Krakowiak, Z Liao… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
The mechanistic understanding of nascent RNAs in transcriptional control remains limited.
Here, by a high sensitivity method methylation-inscribed nascent transcripts sequencing …

Towards a comprehensive catalogue of validated and target-linked human enhancers

M Gasperini, JM Tome, J Shendure - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
The human gene catalogue is essentially complete, but we lack an equivalently vetted
inventory of bona fide human enhancers. Hundreds of thousands of candidate enhancers …

Enhancer RNAs are an important regulatory layer of the epigenome

V Sartorelli, SM Lauberth - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2020 - nature.com
Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) direct a remarkable number of diverse functions in development
and disease through their regulation of transcription, RNA processing and translation …