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 …

Revealing lncRNA structures and interactions by sequencing-based approaches

X Qian, J Zhao, PY Yeung, QC Zhang… - Trends in biochemical …, 2019 - cell.com
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as significant players in almost every level
of gene function and regulation. Thus, characterizing the structures and interactions of …

RNA G-quadruplexes in biology: principles and molecular mechanisms

MM Fay, SM Lyons, P Ivanov - Journal of molecular biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract G-quadruplexes (G4s) are extremely stable DNA or RNA secondary structures
formed by sequences rich in guanine. These structures are implicated in many essential …

G-quadruplexes: prediction, characterization, and biological application

CK Kwok, CJ Merrick - Trends in biotechnology, 2017 - cell.com
Guanine (G)-rich sequences in nucleic acids can assemble into G-quadruplex structures that
involve G-quartets linked by loop nucleotides. The structural and topological diversity of G …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] G-Quadruplexes in RNA biology: recent advances and future directions

L Dumas, P Herviou, E Dassi, A Cammas… - Trends in Biochemical …, 2021 - cell.com
RNA G-quadruplexes (RG4s) are four-stranded structures known to control gene expression
mechanisms, from transcription to protein synthesis, and DNA-related processes. Their …

rG4-seq reveals widespread formation of G-quadruplex structures in the human transcriptome

CK Kwok, G Marsico, AB Sahakyan, VS Chambers… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
We introduce RNA G-quadruplex sequencing (rG4-seq), a transcriptome-wide RNA G-
quadruplex (rG4) profiling method that couples rG4-mediated reverse transcriptase stalling …

A guide to computational methods for G-quadruplex prediction

E Puig Lombardi, A Londoño-Vallejo - Nucleic acids research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Guanine-rich nucleic acids can fold into the non-B DNA or RNA structures called G-
quadruplexes (G4). Recent methodological developments have allowed the characterization …

RNA G-quadruplexes are globally unfolded in eukaryotic cells and depleted in bacteria

JU Guo, DP Bartel - Science, 2016 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Many cellular RNAs contain regions that fold into stable structures required
for function. Both Watson− Crick and noncanonical interactions can play important roles in …

[HTML][HTML] METTL1 promotes let-7 MicroRNA processing via m7G methylation

L Pandolfini, I Barbieri, AJ Bannister, A Hendrick… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
methylguanosine (m7G) is present at mRNA caps and at defined internal positions within
tRNAs and rRNAs. However, its detection within low-abundance mRNAs and microRNAs …