Ribosome biogenesis in disease: new players and therapeutic targets

L Jiao, Y Liu, XY Yu, X Pan, Y Zhang, J Tu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
The ribosome is a multi-unit complex that translates mRNA into protein. Ribosome
biogenesis is the process that generates ribosomes and plays an essential role in cell …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Massively parallel base editing to map variant effects in human hematopoiesis

JD Martin-Rufino, N Castano, M Pang, EI Grody… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Systematic evaluation of the impact of genetic variants is critical for the study and treatment
of human physiology and disease. While specific mutations can be introduced by genome …

N6-methyladenosine (m6A) in 18S rRNA promotes fatty acid metabolism and oncogenic transformation

H Peng, B Chen, W Wei, S Guo, H Han, C Yang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Aberrant RNA modifications lead to dysregulated gene expression and cancer progression.
Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) accounts for more than 80% of a cell's total RNA, but the functions …

Ribosome assembly coming into focus

S Klinge, JL Woolford Jr - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
In the past 25 years, genetic and biochemical analyses of ribosome assembly in yeast have
identified most of the factors that participate in this complex pathway and have generated …

Deregulation of ribosomal protein expression and translation promotes breast cancer metastasis

RY Ebright, S Lee, BS Wittner, KL Niederhoffer… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are shed into the bloodstream from primary tumors, but only a
small subset of these cells generates metastases. We conducted an in vivo genome-wide …

Translational control of stem cell function

JA Saba, K Liakath-Ali, R Green, FM Watt - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Stem cells are characterized by their ability to self-renew and differentiate into many different
cell types. Research has focused primarily on how these processes are regulated at a …

[HTML][HTML] Unraveling hematopoiesis through the lens of genomics

LA Liggett, VG Sankaran - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Hematopoiesis has long served as a paradigm of stem cell biology and tissue homeostasis.
In the past decade, the genomics revolution has ushered in powerful new methods for …

Uncovering the assembly pathway of human ribosomes and its emerging links to disease

KE Bohnsack, MT Bohnsack - The EMBO journal, 2019 - embopress.org
The essential cellular process of ribosome biogenesis is at the nexus of various signalling
pathways that coordinate protein synthesis with cellular growth and proliferation. The fact …

Translation deregulation in human disease

S Tahmasebi, A Khoutorsky, MB Mathews… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2018 - nature.com
Advances in sequencing and high-throughput techniques have provided an unprecedented
opportunity to interrogate human diseases on a genome-wide scale. The list of disease …