Long non-coding RNAs in the regulation of gene expression: physiology and disease

JCR Fernandes, SM Acuña, JI Aoki, LM Floeter-Winter… - Non-coding RNA, 2019 - mdpi.com
The identification of RNAs that are not translated into proteins was an important
breakthrough, defining the diversity of molecules involved in eukaryotic regulation of gene …

Long non-coding RNAs: spatial amplifiers that control nuclear structure and gene expression

JM Engreitz, N Ollikainen, M Guttman - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2016 - nature.com
Over the past decade, it has become clear that mammalian genomes encode thousands of
long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), many of which are now implicated in diverse biological …

[HTML][HTML] B cell-specific XIST complex enforces X-inactivation and restrains atypical B cells

B Yu, Y Qi, R Li, Q Shi, AT Satpathy, HY Chang - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
The long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) XIST establishes X chromosome inactivation (XCI) in
female cells in early development and thereafter is thought to be largely dispensable. Here …

The interplay of histone modifications–writers that read

T Zhang, S Cooper, N Brockdorff - EMBO reports, 2015 - embopress.org
Histones are subject to a vast array of posttranslational modifications including acetylation,
methylation, phosphorylation, and ubiquitylation. The writers of these modifications play …

The Xist lncRNA interacts directly with SHARP to silence transcription through HDAC3

CA McHugh, CK Chen, A Chow, CF Surka, C Tran… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Many long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) affect gene expression, but the mechanisms by
which they act are still largely unknown. One of the best-studied lncRNAs is Xist, which is …

Long non-coding RNAs: new players in cell differentiation and development

A Fatica, I Bozzoni - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Genomes of multicellular organisms are characterized by the pervasive expression of
different types of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). Long ncRNAs (lncRNAs) belong to a novel …

[HTML][HTML] lincRNAs: genomics, evolution, and mechanisms

I Ulitsky, DP Bartel - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Long intervening noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) are transcribed from thousands of loci in
mammalian genomes and might play widespread roles in gene regulation and other cellular …

Xist RNA in action: Past, present, and future

A Loda, E Heard - PLoS genetics, 2019 - journals.plos.org
In mammals, dosage compensation of sex chromosomal genes between females (XX) and
males (XY) is achieved through X-chromosome inactivation (XCI). The X-linked X-inactive …

Variant PRC1 complex-dependent H2A ubiquitylation drives PRC2 recruitment and polycomb domain formation

NP Blackledge, AM Farcas, T Kondo, HW King… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Chromatin modifying activities inherent to polycomb repressive complexes PRC1 and PRC2
play an essential role in gene regulation, cellular differentiation, and development. However …

The implication of early chromatin changes in X chromosome inactivation

JJ Żylicz, A Bousard, K Žumer, F Dossin, E Mohammad… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
During development, the precise relationships between transcription and chromatin
modifications often remain unclear. We use the X chromosome inactivation (XCI) paradigm …