Birth and death of histone mRNAs

WF Marzluff, KP Koreski - Trends in Genetics, 2017 - cell.com
In metazoans, histone mRNAs are not polyadenylated but end in a conserved stem-loop.
Stem-loop binding protein (SLBP) binds to the stem-loop and is required for all steps in …

RNA structures as mediators of neurological diseases and as drug targets

V Bernat, MD Disney - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
RNAs adopt diverse folded structures that are essential for function and thus play critical
roles in cellular biology. A striking example of this is the ribosome, a complex, three …

Development of force field parameters for the simulation of single-and double-stranded DNA molecules and DNA–protein complexes

MR Tucker, S Piana, D Tan, MV LeVine… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Although molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been used extensively to study the
structural dynamics of proteins, the role of MD simulation in studies of nucleic acid based …

Structure of an active human histone pre-mRNA 3′-end processing machinery

Y Sun, Y Zhang, WS Aik, XC Yang, WF Marzluff, T Walz… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The 3′-end processing machinery for metazoan replication-dependent histone precursor
messenger RNAs (pre-mRNAs) contains the U7 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein and shares …

Intra-and inter-molecular regulation by intrinsically-disordered regions governs PUF protein RNA binding

C Qiu, Z Zhang, RN Wine, ZT Campbell… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
PUF proteins are characterized by globular RNA-binding domains. They also interact with
partner proteins that modulate their RNA-binding activities. Caenorhabditis elegans PUF …

Intrinsically disordered electronegative clusters improve stability and binding specificity of RNA-binding proteins

S Zaharias, Z Zhang, K Davis, T Fargason… - Journal of Biological …, 2021 - ASBMB
RNA-binding proteins play crucial roles in various cellular functions and contain abundant
disordered protein regions. The disordered regions in RNA-binding proteins are rich in …

The translational repressor Glorund uses interchangeable RNA recognition domains to recognize Drosophila nanos

MS Warden, EF DeRose, JV Tamayo… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Drosophila melanogaster protein Glorund (Glo) represses nanos (nos)
translation and uses its quasi-RNA recognition motifs (qRRMs) to recognize both G-tract and …

RNAcompete-S: Combined RNA sequence/structure preferences for RNA binding proteins derived from a single-step in vitro selection

KB Cook, S Vembu, KCH Ha, H Zheng, KU Laverty… - Methods, 2017 - Elsevier
RNA-binding proteins recognize RNA sequences and structures, but there is currently no
systematic and accurate method to derive large (> 12 base) motifs de novo that reflect a …

Application of tyrosine-tryptophan fluorescence resonance energy transfer in monitoring protein size changes

KB Davis, Z Zhang, EA Karpova, J Zhang - Analytical biochemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
Monitoring protein size changes has versatile applications in studying protein
folding/unfolding, conformational rearrangements, and ligand binding. Traditionally, FRET …

Characterization of binding of LARP6 to the 5'stem-loop of collagen mRNAs: implications for synthesis of type I collagen

L Stefanovic, L Longo, Y Zhang, B Stefanovic - RNA biology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Type I collagen is composed of 2 polypeptides, α1 (I) and α2 (I), which fold into triple helix.
Collagen α1 (I) and α2 (I) mRNAs have a conserved stem-loop structure in their 5'UTRs, the …