History, discovery, and classification of lncRNAs

J Jarroux, A Morillon, M Pinskaya - Long non coding RNA biology, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The RNA World Hypothesis suggests that prebiotic life revolved around RNA
instead of DNA and proteins. Although modern cells have changed significantly in 4 billion …

The functions and unique features of LncRNAs in cancer development and tumorigenesis

K Taniue, N Akimitsu - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over the past decades, research on cancer biology has focused on the involvement of
protein-coding genes in cancer development. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), which are …

Systematic analysis of telomere length and somatic alterations in 31 cancer types

FP Barthel, W Wei, M Tang, E Martinez-Ledesma… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Cancer cells survive cellular crisis through telomere maintenance mechanisms. We report
telomere lengths in 18,430 samples, including tumors and non-neoplastic samples, across …

Damage-induced lncRNAs control the DNA damage response through interaction with DDRNAs at individual double-strand breaks

F Michelini, S Pitchiaya, V Vitelli, S Sharma, U Gioia… - Nature cell …, 2017 - nature.com
The DNA damage response (DDR) preserves genomic integrity. Small non-coding RNAs
termed DDRNAs are generated at DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) and are critical for …

[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 …

Telomere length determines TERRA and R-loop regulation through the cell cycle

M Graf, D Bonetti, A Lockhart, K Serhal, V Kellner… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Maintenance of a minimal telomere length is essential to prevent cellular senescence. When
critically short telomeres arise in the absence of telomerase, they can be repaired by …

RNaseH1 regulates TERRA-telomeric DNA hybrids and telomere maintenance in ALT tumour cells

R Arora, Y Lee, H Wischnewski, CM Brun… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
A fraction of cancer cells maintain telomeres through the telomerase-independent,'
Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres'(ALT) pathway. ALT relies on homologous …

DNA-PK as an emerging therapeutic target in cancer

IS Mohiuddin, MH Kang - Frontiers in oncology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) plays an instrumental role in the overall
survival and proliferation of cells. As a member of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-related …

Long noncoding RNAs: past, present, and future

JTY Kung, D Colognori, JT Lee - Genetics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have gained widespread attention in recent years as a
potentially new and crucial layer of biological regulation. lncRNAs of all kinds have been …

[HTML][HTML] Super-resolution fluorescence imaging of telomeres reveals TRF2-dependent T-loop formation

Y Doksani, JY Wu, T de Lange, X Zhuang - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
We have applied a super-resolution fluorescence imaging method, stochastic optical
reconstruction microscopy (STORM), to visualize the structure of functional telomeres and …