Chemistry, structure and function of approved oligonucleotide therapeutics

M Egli, M Manoharan - Nucleic Acids Research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Eighteen nucleic acid therapeutics have been approved for treatment of various diseases in
the last 25 years. Their modes of action include antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), splice …

Advances in targeting 'undruggable'transcription factors with small molecules

MJ Henley, AN Koehler - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2021 - nature.com
Transcription factors (TFs) represent key biological players in diseases including cancer,
autoimmunity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. However, outside nuclear receptors …

[HTML][HTML] CRISPR–Cas9 structures and mechanisms

F Jiang, JA Doudna - Annual review of biophysics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Many bacterial clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)–
CRISPR-associated (Cas) systems employ the dual RNA–guided DNA endonuclease Cas9 …

Double-stranded RNA sensors and modulators in innate immunity

S Hur - Annual review of immunology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Detection of double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) is a central mechanism of innate immune
defense in many organisms. We here discuss several families of dsRNA-binding proteins …

Predicting the sequence specificities of DNA-and RNA-binding proteins by deep learning

B Alipanahi, A Delong, MT Weirauch, BJ Frey - Nature biotechnology, 2015 - nature.com
Knowing the sequence specificities of DNA-and RNA-binding proteins is essential for
developing models of the regulatory processes in biological systems and for identifying …

DNA interrogation by the CRISPR RNA-guided endonuclease Cas9

SH Sternberg, S Redding, M Jinek, EC Greene… - Biophysical …, 2014 - cell.com
The CRISPR-associated enzyme Cas9 is an RNA-guided endonuclease that uses RNA:
DNA base-pairing to target and cleave foreign DNA as part of an adaptive immune system in …

DNA-dependent formation of transcription factor pairs alters their binding specificity

A Jolma, Y Yin, KR Nitta, K Dave, A Popov, M Taipale… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Gene expression is regulated by transcription factors (TFs), proteins that recognize short
DNA sequence motifs,,. Such sequences are very common in the human genome, and an …

Transcription factor–DNA binding: beyond binding site motifs

S Inukai, KH Kock, ML Bulyk - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2017 - Elsevier
Sequence-specific transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression by binding to cis-
regulatory elements in promoter and enhancer DNA. While studies of TF–DNA binding have …

[HTML][HTML] Absence of a simple code: how transcription factors read the genome

M Slattery, T Zhou, L Yang, ACD Machado… - Trends in biochemical …, 2014 - cell.com
Transcription factors (TFs) influence cell fate by interpreting the regulatory DNA within a
genome. TFs recognize DNA in a specific manner; the mechanisms underlying this …

[HTML][HTML] The mitochondrial-encoded peptide MOTS-c translocates to the nucleus to regulate nuclear gene expression in response to metabolic stress

KH Kim, JM Son, BA Benayoun, C Lee - Cell metabolism, 2018 - cell.com
Cellular homeostasis is coordinated through communication between mitochondria and the
nucleus, organelles that each possess their own genomes. Whereas the mitochondrial …