What are 3′ UTRs doing?

C Mayr - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2019 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
SUMMARY 3′ untranslated regions (3′ UTRs) of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) are best
known to regulate mRNA-based processes, such as mRNA localization, mRNA stability, and …

Autism spectrum disorder: insights into convergent mechanisms from transcriptomics

M Quesnel-Vallières, RJ Weatheritt, SP Cordes… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Heredity has a major role in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), yet underlying causal genetic
variants have been defined only in a fairly small subset of cases. The enormous genetic …

Gene2vec: gene subsequence embedding for prediction of mammalian N6-methyladenosine sites from mRNA

Q Zou, P Xing, L Wei, B Liu - Rna, 2019 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
N 6-Methyladenosine (m6A) refers to methylation modification of the adenosine nucleotide
acid at the nitrogen-6 position. Many conventional computational methods for identifying N 6 …

Human 5′ UTR design and variant effect prediction from a massively parallel translation assay

PJ Sample, B Wang, DW Reid, V Presnyak… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The ability to predict the impact of cis-regulatory sequences on gene expression would
facilitate discovery in fundamental and applied biology. Here we combine polysome profiling …

FTO controls reversible m6Am RNA methylation during snRNA biogenesis

J Mauer, M Sindelar, V Despic, T Guez… - Nature chemical …, 2019 - nature.com
Small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs) are core spliceosome components and mediate pre-mRNA
splicing. Here we show that snRNAs contain a regulated and reversible nucleotide …

Translation affects mRNA stability in a codon-dependent manner in human cells

Q Wu, SG Medina, G Kushawah, ML DeVore… - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
mRNA translation decodes nucleotide into amino acid sequences. However, translation has
also been shown to affect mRNA stability depending on codon composition in model …

CRISPR-Cas9-based mutagenesis frequently provokes on-target mRNA misregulation

R Tuladhar, Y Yeu, J Tyler Piazza, Z Tan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The introduction of insertion-deletions (INDELs) by non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ)
pathway underlies the mechanistic basis of CRISPR-Cas9-directed genome editing …

A deep neural network for predicting and engineering alternative polyadenylation

N Bogard, J Linder, AB Rosenberg, G Seelig - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Alternative polyadenylation (APA) is a major driver of transcriptome diversity in human cells.
Here, we use deep learning to predict APA from DNA sequence alone. We trained our …

The solution structure of FUS bound to RNA reveals a bipartite mode of RNA recognition with both sequence and shape specificity

FE Loughlin, PJ Lukavsky, T Kazeeva, S Reber… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Fused in sarcoma (FUS) is an RNA binding protein involved in regulating many aspects of
RNA processing and linked to several neurodegenerative diseases. Transcriptomics studies …

Comprehensive evaluation of deep learning architectures for prediction of DNA/RNA sequence binding specificities

A Trabelsi, M Chaabane, A Ben-Hur - Bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Deep learning architectures have recently demonstrated their power in predicting
DNA-and RNA-binding specificity. Existing methods fall into three classes: Some are based …