Ribosomal proteins and human diseases: molecular mechanisms and targeted therapy

J Kang, N Brajanovski, KT Chan, J Xuan… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Ribosome biogenesis and protein synthesis are fundamental rate-limiting steps for cell
growth and proliferation. The ribosomal proteins (RPs), comprising the structural parts of the …

Regulation of ribosomal RNA gene copy number, transcription and nucleolus organization in eukaryotes

Y Hori, C Engel, T Kobayashi - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2023 - nature.com
One of the first biological machineries to be created seems to have been the ribosome.
Since then, organisms have dedicated great efforts to optimize this apparatus. The …

Structural insights into nuclear transcription by eukaryotic DNA-dependent RNA polymerases

M Girbig, AD Misiaszek, CW Müller - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
The eukaryotic transcription apparatus synthesizes a staggering diversity of RNA molecules.
The labour of nuclear gene transcription is, therefore, divided among multiple DNA …

Ribosome biogenesis in cancer: new players and therapeutic avenues

J Pelletier, G Thomas, S Volarević - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
The ribosome is a complex molecular machine composed of numerous distinct proteins and
nucleic acids and is responsible for protein synthesis in every living cell. Ribosome …

Heterochromatin: guardian of the genome

A Janssen, SU Colmenares… - Annual review of cell and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Constitutive heterochromatin is a major component of the eukaryotic nucleus and is
essential for the maintenance of genome stability. Highly concentrated at pericentromeric …

Single-cell nuclear architecture across cell types in the mouse brain

Y Takei, S Zheng, J Yun, S Shah, N Pierson, J White… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Diverse cell types in tissues have distinct gene expression programs, chromatin states, and
nuclear architectures. To correlate such multimodal information across thousands of single …

Dnmt2 mediates intergenerational transmission of paternally acquired metabolic disorders through sperm small non-coding RNAs

Y Zhang, X Zhang, J Shi, F Tuorto, X Li, Y Liu… - Nature cell …, 2018 - nature.com
The discovery of RNAs (for example, messenger RNAs, non-coding RNAs) in sperm has
opened the possibility that sperm may function by delivering additional paternal information …

Nascent pre-rRNA sorting via phase separation drives the assembly of dense fibrillar components in the human nucleolus

RW Yao, G Xu, Y Wang, L Shan, PF Luan, Y Wang… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Fibrillar centers (FCs) and dense fibrillar components (DFCs) are essential morphologically
distinct sub-regions of mammalian cell nucleoli for rDNA transcription and pre-rRNA …

RNA in formation and regulation of transcriptional condensates

PA Sharp, AK Chakraborty, JE Henninger, RA Young - Rna, 2022 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Macroscopic membraneless organelles containing RNA such as the nucleoli, germ
granules, and the Cajal body have been known for decades. These biomolecular …

Long noncoding RNAs: past, present, and future

JTY Kung, D Colognori, JT Lee - Genetics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have gained widespread attention in recent years as a
potentially new and crucial layer of biological regulation. lncRNAs of all kinds have been …