Protein–RNA interaction prediction with deep learning: structure matters

J Wei, S Chen, L Zong, X Gao, Y Li - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Protein–RNA interactions are of vital importance to a variety of cellular activities. Both
experimental and computational techniques have been developed to study the interactions …

TDP-43 loss and ALS-risk SNPs drive mis-splicing and depletion of UNC13A

AL Brown, OG Wilkins, MJ Keuss, SE Hill, M Zanovello… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Variants of UNC13A, a critical gene for synapse function, increase the risk of amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia,–, two related neurodegenerative diseases …

RNA-binding proteins in the regulation of adipogenesis and adipose function

P Zhang, W Wu, C Ma, C Du, Y Huang, H Xu, C Li… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
The obesity epidemic represents a critical public health issue worldwide, as it is a vital risk
factor for many diseases, including type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease …

Sorting and packaging of RNA into extracellular vesicles shape intracellular transcript levels

T O'Grady, MS Njock, M Lion, J Bruyr, E Mariavelle… - BMC biology, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are released by nearly every cell type and
have attracted much attention for their ability to transfer protein and diverse RNA species …

iLoc-miRNA: extracellular/intracellular miRNA prediction using deep BiLSTM with attention mechanism

ZY Zhang, L Ning, X Ye, YH Yang… - Briefings in …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The location of microRNAs (miRNAs) in cells determines their function in regulation activity.
Studies have shown that miRNAs are stable in the extracellular environment that mediates …

LINE1 are spliced in non-canonical transcript variants to regulate T cell quiescence and exhaustion

F Marasca, S Sinha, R Vadalà, B Polimeni, V Ranzani… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
How gene expression is controlled to preserve human T cell quiescence is poorly
understood. Here we show that non-canonical splicing variants containing long interspersed …

Profiling lariat intermediates reveals genetic determinants of early and late co-transcriptional splicing

Y Zeng, BJ Fair, H Zeng, A Krishnamohan, Y Hou… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Long introns with short exons in vertebrate genes are thought to require spliceosome
assembly across exons (exon definition), rather than introns, thereby requiring transcription …

Regulation of alternative polyadenylation by the C2H2-zinc-finger protein Sp1

J Song, S Nabeel-Shah, S Pu, H Lee, U Braunschweig… - Molecular Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Alternative polyadenylation (APA) enhances gene regulatory potential by increasing the
diversity of mRNA transcripts. 3′ UTR shortening through APA correlates with enhanced …

Systematic exploration of dynamic splicing networks reveals conserved multistage regulators of neurogenesis

H Han, AJ Best, U Braunschweig, N Mikolajewicz, JD Li… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Alternative splicing (AS) is a critical regulatory layer; yet, factors controlling functionally
coordinated splicing programs during developmental transitions are poorly understood …

Diverse cell-specific patterns of alternative polyadenylation in Drosophila

S Lee, YC Chen, FCA Consortium, AE Gillen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Most genes in higher eukaryotes express isoforms with distinct 3'untranslated regions
(3'UTRs), generated by alternative polyadenylation (APA). Since 3'UTRs are predominant …