Functional long non-coding RNAs evolve from junk transcripts

AF Palazzo, EV Koonin - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Transcriptome studies reveal pervasive transcription of complex genomes, such as those of
mammals. Despite popular arguments for functionality of most, if not all, of these transcripts …

The dark proteome: translation from noncanonical open reading frames

BW Wright, Z Yi, JS Weissman, J Chen - Trends in Cell Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Omics-based technologies have revolutionized our understanding of the coding potential of
the genome. In particular, these studies revealed widespread unannotated open reading …

Electrophilic properties of itaconate and derivatives regulate the IκBζ–ATF3 inflammatory axis

M Bambouskova, L Gorvel, V Lampropoulou… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Metabolic regulation has been recognized as a powerful principle guiding immune
responses. Inflammatory macrophages undergo extensive metabolic rewiring marked by the …

Deciphering the “m6A code” via antibody-independent quantitative profiling

MA Garcia-Campos, S Edelheit, U Toth, M Safra… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Summary N6-methyladenosine (m 6 A) is the most abundant modification on mRNA and is
implicated in critical roles in development, physiology, and disease. A major limitation has …

Ribosome profiling: global views of translation

NT Ingolia, JA Hussmann… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2019 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The translation of messenger RNA (mRNA) into protein and the folding of the resulting
protein into an active form are prerequisites for virtually every cellular process and represent …

Function and evolution of upstream ORFs in eukaryotes

H Zhang, Y Wang, J Lu - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2019 - cell.com
There is growing interest in the role of translational regulation in cellular homeostasis during
organismal development. Translation initiation is the rate-limiting step in mRNA translation …

SUMO is a pervasive regulator of meiosis

NR Bhagwat, SN Owens, M Ito, JV Boinapalli, P Poa… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Protein modification by SUMO helps orchestrate the elaborate events of meiosis to faithfully
produce haploid gametes. To date, only a handful of meiotic SUMO targets have been …

Local translation in neuronal processes

A Biever, PG Donlin-Asp, EM Schuman - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Axons, much like dendrites, contain a remarkably diverse set of localized
transcripts.•Presynaptic translation allows for proteostasis in mature axons.•Presynaptic and …

Monitoring the 5′ UTR landscape reveals isoform switches to drive translational efficiencies in cancer

R Weber, U Ghoshdastider, D Spies, C Duré… - Oncogene, 2023 - nature.com
Transcriptional and translational control are key determinants of gene expression, however,
to what extent these two processes can be collectively coordinated is still poorly understood …

Does functional specialization of ribosomes really exist?

MB Ferretti, K Karbstein - Rna, 2019 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
It has recently become clear that ribosomes are much more heterogeneous than previously
thought, with diversity arising from rRNA sequence and modifications, ribosomal protein …