Non-coding RNAs in disease: from mechanisms to therapeutics

K Nemeth, R Bayraktar, M Ferracin… - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are a heterogeneous group of transcripts that, by definition, are
not translated into proteins. Since their discovery, ncRNAs have emerged as important …

miRNA: a promising therapeutic target in cancer

A Menon, N Abd-Aziz, K Khalid, CL Poh… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
microRNAs are small non-coding RNAs that regulate several genes post-transcriptionally by
complementarity pairing. Since discovery, they have been reported to be involved in a …

MicroRNAs: from mechanism to organism

PJ Dexheimer, L Cochella - Frontiers in cell and developmental …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short, regulatory RNAs that act as post-transcriptional repressors
of gene expression in diverse biological contexts. The emergence of small RNA-mediated …

Functions and mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance in animals

K Skvortsova, N Iovino, O Bogdanović - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2018 - nature.com
The idea that epigenetic determinants such as DNA methylation, histone modifications or
RNA can be passed to the next generation through meiotic products (gametes) is long …

CRISPRscan: designing highly efficient sgRNAs for CRISPR-Cas9 targeting in vivo

MA Moreno-Mateos, CE Vejnar, JD Beaudoin… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
CRISPR-Cas9 technology provides a powerful system for genome engineering. However,
variable activity across different single guide RNAs (sgRNAs) remains a significant …

MirGeneDB 2.1: toward a complete sampling of all major animal phyla

B Fromm, E Høye, D Domanska, X Zhong… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We describe an update of MirGeneDB, the manually curated microRNA gene database.
Adhering to uniform and consistent criteria for microRNA annotation and nomenclature, we …

Identification and consequences of miRNA–target interactions—beyond repression of gene expression

J Hausser, M Zavolan - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Comparative genomics analyses and high-throughput experimental studies indicate that a
microRNA (miRNA) binds to hundreds of sites across the transcriptome. Although the …

mRNA destabilization is the dominant effect of mammalian microRNAs by the time substantial repression ensues

SW Eichhorn, H Guo, SE McGeary, RA Rodriguez-Mias… - Molecular cell, 2014 - cell.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate target mRNAs through a combination of translational
repression and mRNA destabilization, with mRNA destabilization dominating at steady state …

The role of microRNAs in the pathophysiology of human central nervous system: a focus on neurodegenerative diseases

D Rezaee, F Saadatpour, N Akbari, A Zoghi… - Ageing Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract microRNAs (miRNAs) are suggested to play substantial roles in regulating the
development and various physiologic functions of the central nervous system (CNS). These …

A high-resolution mRNA expression time course of embryonic development in zebrafish

RJ White, JE Collins, IM Sealy, N Wali, CM Dooley… - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
We have produced an mRNA expression time course of zebrafish development across 18
time points from 1 cell to 5 days post-fertilisation sampling individual and pools of embryos …