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 …

The current state and future directions of RNAi-based therapeutics

RL Setten, JJ Rossi, S Han - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2019 - nature.com
The RNA interference (RNAi) pathway regulates mRNA stability and translation in nearly all
human cells. Small double-stranded RNA molecules can efficiently trigger RNAi silencing of …

RNA-directed DNA methylation

RM Erdmann, CL Picard - PLoS genetics, 2020 - journals.plos.org
RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) is a biological process in which non-coding RNA
molecules direct the addition of DNA methylation to specific DNA sequences. The RdDM …

Site-specific manipulation of Arabidopsis loci using CRISPR-Cas9 SunTag systems

A Papikian, W Liu, J Gallego-Bartolomé… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Understanding genomic functions requires site-specific manipulation of loci via efficient
protein effector targeting systems. However, few approaches for targeted manipulation of the …

RNA-directed DNA methylation: an epigenetic pathway of increasing complexity

MA Matzke, RA Mosher - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) is the major small RNA-mediated epigenetic
pathway in plants. RdDM requires a specialized transcriptional machinery that comprises …

RNA interference in the nucleus: roles for small RNAs in transcription, epigenetics and beyond

SE Castel, RA Martienssen - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2013 - nature.com
A growing number of functions are emerging for RNA interference (RNAi) in the nucleus, in
addition to well-characterized roles in post-transcriptional gene silencing in the cytoplasm …

Small silencing RNAs: an expanding universe

M Ghildiyal, PD Zamore - Nature reviews genetics, 2009 - nature.com
Since the discovery in 1993 of the first small silencing RNA, a dizzying number of small RNA
classes have been identified, including microRNAs (miRNAs), small interfering RNAs …

[HTML][HTML] MicroRNAs: genomics, biogenesis, mechanism, and function

DP Bartel - cell, 2004 - cell.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous∼ 22 nt RNAs that can play important regulatory
roles in animals and plants by targeting mRNAs for cleavage or translational repression …

Duplexes of 21-nucleotide RNAs mediate RNA interference in cultured mammalian cells

SM Elbashir, J Harborth, W Lendeckel, A Yalcin… - nature, 2001 - nature.com
RNA interference (RNAi) is the process of sequence-specific, post-transcriptional gene
silencing in animals and plants, initiated by double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) that is …

MicroRNAs: small RNAs with a big role in gene regulation

L He, GJ Hannon - Nature reviews genetics, 2004 - nature.com
MicroRNAs are a family of small, non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression in a
sequence-specific manner. The two founding members of the microRNA family were …