Understanding the transcriptome through RNA structure

Y Wan, M Kertesz, RC Spitale, E Segal… - Nature Reviews …, 2011 - nature.com
RNA structure is crucial for gene regulation and function. In the past, transcriptomes have
largely been parsed by primary sequences and expression levels, but it is now becoming …

High-throughput determination of RNA structures

EJ Strobel, AM Yu, JB Lucks - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
RNA performs and regulates a diverse range of cellular processes, with new functional roles
being uncovered at a rapid pace. Interest is growing in how these functions are linked to …

Advances in RNA structure analysis by chemical probing

KM Weeks - Current opinion in structural biology, 2010 - Elsevier
RNA is arguably the most versatile biological macromolecule because of its ability both to
encode and to manipulate genetic information. The diverse roles of RNA depend on its …

QuShape: rapid, accurate, and best-practices quantification of nucleic acid probing information, resolved by capillary electrophoresis

F Karabiber, JL McGinnis, OV Favorov, KM Weeks - Rna, 2013 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Chemical probing of RNA and DNA structure is a widely used and highly informative
approach for examining nucleic acid structure and for evaluating interactions with protein …

The molecular structure of long non-coding RNAs: emerging patterns and functional implications

I Chillón, M Marcia - Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are recently-discovered transcripts that regulate vital
cellular processes and are crucially connected to diseases. Despite their unprecedented …

Probing Xist RNA structure in cells using targeted structure-seq

R Fang, WN Moss, M Rutenberg-Schoenberg… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) Xist is a master regulator of X-chromosome inactivation
in mammalian cells. Models for how Xist and other lncRNAs function depend on …

Identification of biologically active, HIV TAR RNA-binding small molecules using small molecule microarrays

J Sztuba-Solinska, SR Shenoy, P Gareiss… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Identifying small molecules that selectively bind to structured RNA motifs remains an
important challenge in developing potent and specific therapeutics. Most strategies to find …

Computational analysis of conserved RNA secondary structure in transcriptomes and genomes

SR Eddy - Annual review of biophysics, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Transcriptomics experiments and computational predictions both enable systematic
discovery of new functional RNAs. However, many putative noncoding transcripts arise …

Quantitative dimethyl sulfate mapping for automated RNA secondary structure inference

P Cordero, W Kladwang, CC VanLang, R Das - Biochemistry, 2012 - ACS Publications
For decades, dimethyl sulfate (DMS) mapping has informed manual modeling of RNA
structure in vitro and in vivo. Here, we incorporate DMS data into automated secondary …

Nonredundant 3D structure datasets for RNA knowledge extraction and benchmarking

NB Leontis, CL Zirbel - RNA 3D structure analysis and prediction, 2012 - Springer
The continual improvement of methods for RNA 3D structure modeling and prediction
requires accurate and statistically meaningful data concerning RNA structure, both for …