Small nucleolar RNAs: insight into their function in cancer

J Liang, J Wen, Z Huang, X Chen, B Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Small nucleolar RNAs (SnoRNAs) are a class of non-coding RNAs divided into two classes:
C/D box snoRNAs and H/ACA box snoRNAs. The canonical function of C/D box and H/ACA …

Emerging functions for snoRNAs and snoRNA-derived fragments

M Wajahat, CP Bracken, A Orang - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The widespread implementation of mass sequencing has revealed a diverse landscape of
small RNAs derived from larger precursors. Whilst many of these are likely to be byproducts …

Small nucleolar RNAs tell a different tale

J Kufel, P Grzechnik - Trends in Genetics, 2019 - cell.com
Transcribing RNA Polymerase II interacts with multiple factors that orchestrate maturation
and stabilisation of messenger RNA. For the majority of noncoding RNAs, the polymerase …

LncRNA INHEG promotes glioma stem cell maintenance and tumorigenicity through regulating rRNA 2'-O-methylation

L Liu, Z Liu, Q Liu, W Wu, P Lin, X Liu, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) ranks among the most lethal of human cancers, containing glioma stem
cells (GSCs) that display therapeutic resistance. Here, we report that the lncRNA INHEG is …

Telomerase mechanism of telomere synthesis

RA Wu, HE Upton, JM Vogan… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Telomerase is the essential reverse transcriptase required for linear chromosome
maintenance in most eukaryotes. Telomerase supplements the tandem array of simple …

A PRC2-independent function for EZH2 in regulating rRNA 2′-O methylation and IRES-dependent translation

Y Yi, Y Li, Q Meng, Q Li, F Li, B Lu, J Shen, L Fazli… - Nature cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Dysregulated translation is a common feature of cancer. Uncovering its governing factors
and underlying mechanism are important for cancer therapy. Here, we report that enhancer …

RNA 2′-O-methylation (Nm) modification in human diseases

DG Dimitrova, L Teysset, C Carré - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
Nm (2′-O-methylation) is one of the most common modifications in the RNA world. It has
the potential to influence the RNA molecules in multiple ways, such as structure, stability …

Small non-coding RNAs: new class of biomarkers and potential therapeutic targets in neurodegenerative disease

CN Watson, A Belli, V Di Pietro - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) are becoming increasingly prevalent in the world, with
an aging population. In the last few decades, due to the devastating nature of these …

Intronic small nucleolar RNAs regulate host gene splicing through base pairing with their adjacent intronic sequences

D Bergeron, L Faucher-Giguère, AK Emmerichs… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are abundant noncoding RNAs best
known for their involvement in ribosomal RNA maturation. In mammals, most expressed …

Ribosome biogenesis in plants: from functional 45S ribosomal DNA organization to ribosome assembly factors

J Sáez-Vásquez, M Delseny - The Plant Cell, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The transcription of 18S, 5.8 S, and 18S rRNA genes (45S rDNA), cotranscriptional
processing of pre-rRNA, and assembly of mature rRNA with ribosomal proteins are the …