Mechanisms of lncRNA biogenesis as revealed by nascent transcriptomics

T Nojima, NJ Proudfoot - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2022 - nature.com
Mammalian genomes express two principal gene categories through RNA polymerase II-
mediated transcription: protein-coding transcription units and non-coding RNA transcription …

RNA polymerase II speed: a key player in controlling and adapting transcriptome composition

L Muniz, E Nicolas, D Trouche - The EMBO journal, 2021 - embopress.org
Abstract RNA polymerase II (RNA Pol II) speed or elongation rate, ie, the number of
nucleotides synthesized per unit of time, is a major determinant of transcriptome …

Transcription elongation can affect genome 3D structure

S Heinz, L Texari, MGB Hayes, M Urbanowski… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
How transcription affects genome 3D organization is not well understood. We found that
during influenza A (IAV) infection, rampant transcription rapidly reorganizes host cell …

Knowing when to stop: Transcription termination on protein-coding genes by eukaryotic RNAPII

JB Rodríguez-Molina, S West, LA Passmore - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Gene expression is controlled in a dynamic and regulated manner to allow for the consistent
and steady expression of some proteins as well as the rapidly changing production of other …

The output of protein-coding genes shifts to circular RNAs when the pre-mRNA processing machinery is limiting

D Liang, DC Tatomer, Z Luo, H Wu, L Yang, LL Chen… - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
Many eukaryotic genes generate linear mRNAs and circular RNAs, but it is largely unknown
how the ratio of linear to circular RNA is controlled or modulated. Using RNAi screening in …

Time-resolved single-cell RNA-seq using metabolic RNA labelling

F Erhard, AE Saliba, A Lusser, C Toussaint… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA genomics technologies are revolutionizing biomedical science by profiling
single cells with unprecedented resolution, providing fundamental insights into the role of …

Evidence for DNA-mediated nuclear compartmentalization distinct from phase separation

DT McSwiggen, AS Hansen, SS Teves, H Marie-Nelly… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
RNA Polymerase II (Pol II) and transcription factors form concentrated hubs in cells via
multivalent protein-protein interactions, often mediated by proteins with intrinsically …

Transcriptional termination in mammals: Stopping the RNA polymerase II juggernaut

NJ Proudfoot - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND Genes correspond to single transcription units, starting from the promoter
and ending at the terminator. Terminating gene transcription is directly coupled to mRNA …

Translation affects mRNA stability in a codon-dependent manner in human cells

Q Wu, SG Medina, G Kushawah, ML DeVore… - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
mRNA translation decodes nucleotide into amino acid sequences. However, translation has
also been shown to affect mRNA stability depending on codon composition in model …

Direct RNA sequencing on nanopore arrays redefines the transcriptional complexity of a viral pathogen

DP Depledge, KP Srinivas, T Sadaoka… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Characterizing complex viral transcriptomes by conventional RNA sequencing approaches
is complicated by high gene density, overlapping reading frames, and complex splicing …