A brave new world of RNA-binding proteins

MW Hentze, A Castello, T Schwarzl… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are typically thought of as proteins that bind RNA through one
or multiple globular RNA-binding domains (RBDs) and change the fate or function of the …

A census of human RNA-binding proteins

S Gerstberger, M Hafner, T Tuschl - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Post-transcriptional gene regulation (PTGR) concerns processes involved in the maturation,
transport, stability and translation of coding and non-coding RNAs. RNA-binding proteins …

Exon junction complex shapes the m6A epitranscriptome

X Yang, R Triboulet, Q Liu, E Sendinc… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract N6-methyladenosine (m6A), the most abundant modification of mRNA, is essential
for normal development and dysregulation promotes cancer. m6A is highly enriched in the …

Differential m6A, m6Am, and m1A demethylation mediated by FTO in the cell nucleus and cytoplasm

J Wei, F Liu, Z Lu, Q Fei, Y Ai, PC He, H Shi, X Cui… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
FTO, the first RNA demethylase discovered, mediates the demethylation of internal N 6-
methyladenosine (m 6 A) and N 6, 2-O-dimethyladenosine (m 6 A m) at the+ 1 position from …

The human RNA-binding proteome and its dynamics during translational arrest

J Trendel, T Schwarzl, R Horos, A Prakash, A Bateman… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Proteins and RNA functionally and physically intersect in multiple biological processes,
however, currently no universal method is available to purify protein-RNA complexes. Here …

Comprehensive identification of RNA–protein interactions in any organism using orthogonal organic phase separation (OOPS)

RML Queiroz, T Smith, E Villanueva… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Existing high-throughput methods to identify RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are based on
capture of polyadenylated RNAs and cannot recover proteins that interact with …

[HTML][HTML] RNA-induced conformational switching and clustering of G3BP drive stress granule assembly by condensation

J Guillén-Boixet, A Kopach, AS Holehouse, S Wittmann… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Stressed cells shut down translation, release mRNA molecules from polysomes, and form
stress granules (SGs) via a network of interactions that involve G3BP. Here we focus on the …

Splicing and transcription touch base: co-transcriptional spliceosome assembly and function

L Herzel, DSM Ottoz, T Alpert… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
Several macromolecular machines collaborate to produce eukaryotic messenger RNA. RNA
polymerase II (Pol II) translocates along genes that are up to millions of base pairs in length …

The selection and function of cell type-specific enhancers

S Heinz, CE Romanoski, C Benner… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2015 - nature.com
The human body contains several hundred cell types, all of which share the same genome.
In metazoans, much of the regulatory code that drives cell type-specific gene expression is …

Synthesizing biomaterials in living organisms

X Zhang, J Wang, Y Zhang, Z Yang, J Gao… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Living organisms fabricate biomacromolecules such as DNA, RNA, and proteins by the self-
assembly process. The research on the mechanism of biomacromolecule formation also …