Small activating RNAs: towards the development of new therapeutic agents and clinical treatments

H Ghanbarian, S Aghamiri, M Eftekhary, N Wagner… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Small double-strand RNA (dsRNA) molecules can activate endogenous genes via an RNA-
based promoter targeting mechanism. RNA activation (RNAa) is an evolutionarily conserved …

Current advances in small activating RNAs for gene therapy: principles, applications and challenges

LY Zhou, ZY He, T Xu, YQ Wei - Current gene therapy, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Small activating RNAs (saRNAs) are small double-stranded RNAs that could mediate the
target-specific gene expression by targeting selected sequences in gene promoters at both …

[HTML][HTML] Inducing gene expression by targeting promoter sequences using small activating RNAs

J Wang, RF Place, V Portnoy, V Huang… - Journal of biological …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Vector-based systems comprised of exogenous nucleic acid sequences remain the standard
for ectopic expression of a particular gene. Such systems offer robust overexpression, but …

Developing small activating RNA as a therapeutic: current challenges and promises

A Kwok, N Raulf, N Habib - Therapeutic Delivery, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
RNA activation (RNAa) allows specific gene upregulation mediated by a small activating
RNA (saRNA). Harnessing this process would help in developing novel therapeutics for …

Small RNAs: the qualified candidates for gene manipulation in diverse clinical pathologies

IP Kaur, K Chopra, P Rishi, S Puri… - Critical Reviews™ in …, 2014 - dl.begellhouse.com
In recent years, RNA interference (RNAi) has become a tool of choice to analyze and target
the in vitro and in vivo function of mammalian genes. RNAi down-regulates gene expression …

Emerging functional principles of tRNA-derived small RNAs and other regulatory small RNAs

Q Chen, T Zhou - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2023 - ASBMB
Recent advancements in small RNA sequencing have unveiled a previously hidden world of
regulatory small noncoding RNAs (sncRNAs) that extend beyond the well-studied small …

RNAa is conserved in mammalian cells

V Huang, Y Qin, J Wang, X Wang, RF Place, G Lin… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background RNA activation (RNAa) is a newly discovered mechanism of gene activation
triggered by small double-stranded RNAs termed 'small activating RNAs'(saRNAs). Thus far …

Small RNA and transcriptional upregulation

V Portnoy, V Huang, RF Place… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Small RNA molecules, such as microRNA and small interfering RNA, have emerged as
master regulators of gene expression through their ability to suppress target genes in a …

Defining features and exploring chemical modifications to manipulate RNAa activity

RF Place, EJ Noonan… - Current pharmaceutical …, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
RNA interference (RNAi) is an evolutionary conserved mechanism by which small double-
stranded RNA (dsRNA)—termed small interfering RNA (siRNA)—inhibit translation or …

RNA activation: promise as a new weapon against cancer

L Zheng, L Wang, J Gan, H Zhang - Cancer Letters, 2014 - Elsevier
RNA activation (RNAa) is a novel mechanism in which short RNA duplexes, referred to as
small activating RNAs (saRNAs), enable sequence-specific gene activation capable of …