A guide to membraneless organelles and their various roles in gene regulation

T Hirose, K Ninomiya, S Nakagawa… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Membraneless organelles (MLOs) are detected in cells as dots of mesoscopic size. By
undergoing phase separation into a liquid-like or gel-like phase, MLOs contribute to …

Innate immune evasion strategies of SARS-CoV-2

JM Minkoff, B tenOever - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, has been
associated with substantial global morbidity and mortality. Despite a tropism that is largely …

Supermeres are functional extracellular nanoparticles replete with disease biomarkers and therapeutic targets

Q Zhang, DK Jeppesen, JN Higginbotham… - Nature cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Extracellular vesicles and exomere nanoparticles are under intense investigation as sources
of clinically relevant cargo. Here we report the discovery of a distinct extracellular …

RNA in cancer

GJ Goodall, VO Wickramasinghe - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
While the processing of mRNA is essential for gene expression, recent findings have
highlighted that RNA processing is systematically altered in cancer. Mutations in RNA …

Targeting biomolecular condensation and protein aggregation against cancer

JL Silva, D Foguel, VF Ferreira, TCRG Vieira… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biomolecular condensates, membrane-less entities arising from liquid–liquid phase
separation, hold dichotomous roles in health and disease. Alongside their physiological …

A brave new world of RNA-binding proteins

MW Hentze, A Castello, T Schwarzl… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are typically thought of as proteins that bind RNA through one
or multiple globular RNA-binding domains (RBDs) and change the fate or function of the …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptome engineering with RNA-targeting type VI-D CRISPR effectors

S Konermann, P Lotfy, NJ Brideau, J Oki… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Class 2 CRISPR-Cas systems endow microbes with diverse mechanisms for adaptive
immunity. Here, we analyzed prokaryotic genome and metagenome sequences to identify …

Circular RNA and its mechanisms in disease: from the bench to the clinic

B Han, J Chao, H Yao - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2018 - Elsevier
The emerging recognition of the functional roles of circular RNAs (circRNAs) has given rise
to a new perspective regarding our understanding of cellular physiology and disease …

[HTML][HTML] The role of alternative splicing in cancer: From oncogenesis to drug resistance

R Sciarrillo, A Wojtuszkiewicz, YG Assaraf… - Drug Resistance …, 2020 - Elsevier
Alternative splicing is a tightly regulated process whereby non-coding sequences of pre-
mRNA are removed and protein-coding segments are assembled in diverse combinations …

The short-and long-range RNA-RNA interactome of SARS-CoV-2

O Ziv, J Price, L Shalamova, T Kamenova, I Goodfellow… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
The Coronaviridae is a family of positive-strand RNA viruses that includes SARS-CoV-2, the
etiologic agent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bearing the largest single-stranded RNA …