The role of m6A, m5C and Ψ RNA modifications in cancer: Novel therapeutic opportunities

P Nombela, B Miguel-López, S Blanco - Molecular cancer, 2021 - Springer
RNA modifications have recently emerged as critical posttranscriptional regulators of gene
expression programmes. Significant advances have been made in understanding the …

The regulation and functions of DNA and RNA G-quadruplexes

D Varshney, J Spiegel, K Zyner, D Tannahill… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2020 - nature.com
DNA and RNA can adopt various secondary structures. Four-stranded G-quadruplex (G4)
structures form through self-recognition of guanines into stacked tetrads, and considerable …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular mechanisms of stress granule assembly and disassembly

S Hofmann, N Kedersha, P Anderson… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2021 - Elsevier
Stress granules (SGs) are membrane-less ribonucleoprotein (RNP)-based cellular
compartments that form in the cytoplasm of a cell upon exposure to various environmental …

METTL1 promotes tumorigenesis through tRNA-derived fragment biogenesis in prostate cancer

R García-Vílchez, AM Añazco-Guenkova, S Dietmann… - Molecular cancer, 2023 - Springer
Newly growing evidence highlights the essential role that epitranscriptomic marks play in the
development of many cancers; however, little is known about the role and implications of …

Emerging roles of tRNA-derived fragments in cancer

M Fu, J Gu, M Wang, J Zhang, Y Chen, P Jiang, T Zhu… - Molecular cancer, 2023 - Springer
Abstract tRNA-derived fragments (tRFs) are an emerging category of small non-coding
RNAs that are generated from cleavage of mature tRNAs or tRNA precursors. The advance …

Action mechanisms and research methods of tRNA-derived small RNAs

Y Xie, L Yao, X Yu, Y Ruan, Z Li, J Guo - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract tRNA-derived small RNAs (tsRNAs), including tRNA-derived fragments (tRFs) and
tRNA halves (tiRNAs), are small regulatory RNAs processed from mature tRNAs or …

Noncanonical roles of tRNAs: tRNA fragments and beyond

Z Su, B Wilson, P Kumar, A Dutta - Annual review of genetics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
As one of the most abundant and conserved RNA species, transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are well
known for their role in reading the codons on messenger RNAs and translating them into …

[HTML][HTML] Pseudouridylation of tRNA-derived fragments steers translational control in stem cells

N Guzzi, M Cieśla, PCT Ngoc, S Lang, S Arora… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Pseudouridylation (Ψ) is the most abundant and widespread type of RNA epigenetic
modification in living organisms; however, the biological role of Ψ remains poorly …

tRNA-derived RNA fragments in cancer: current status and future perspectives

M Yu, B Lu, J Zhang, J Ding, P Liu, Y Lu - Journal of Hematology & …, 2020 - Springer
Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) have been the focus of many studies over the last few decades,
and their fundamental roles in human diseases have been well established. Transfer RNAs …

RNA G-quadruplexes (rG4s): genomics and biological functions

K Lyu, EYC Chow, X Mou, TF Chan… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract G-quadruplexes (G4s) are non-classical DNA or RNA secondary structures that
have been first observed decades ago. Over the years, these four-stranded structural motifs …