microRNAs in action: biogenesis, function and regulation

R Shang, S Lee, G Senavirathne, EC Lai - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Ever since microRNAs (miRNAs) were first recognized as an extensive gene family> 20
years ago, a broad community of researchers was drawn to investigate the universe of small …

Life of RISC: Formation, action, and degradation of RNA-induced silencing complex

H Iwakawa, Y Tomari - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Small RNAs regulate a wide variety of biological processes by repressing the expression of
target genes at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. To achieve these …

The maternal-to-zygotic transition revisited

NL Vastenhouw, WX Cao, HD Lipshitz - Development, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
The development of animal embryos is initially directed by maternal gene products. Then,
during the maternal-to-zygotic transition (MZT), developmental control is handed to the …

Testis development

JA Mäkelä, JJ Koskenniemi, HE Virtanen… - Endocrine …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Production of sperm and androgens is the main function of the testis. This depends on
normal development of both testicular somatic cells and germ cells. A genetic program …

Diversifying microRNA sequence and function

SL Ameres, PD Zamore - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2013 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate the expression of most genes in animals, but we are only
now beginning to understand how they are generated, assembled into functional complexes …

Mechanisms of miRNA‐mediated gene regulation from common downregulation to mRNA‐specific upregulation

A Valinezhad Orang, R Safaralizadeh… - … journal of genomics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Discovered in 1993, micoRNAs (miRNAs) are now recognized as one of the major
regulatory gene families in eukaryotes. To date, 24521 microRNAs have been discovered …

Identification and consequences of miRNA–target interactions—beyond repression of gene expression

J Hausser, M Zavolan - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Comparative genomics analyses and high-throughput experimental studies indicate that a
microRNA (miRNA) binds to hundreds of sites across the transcriptome. Although the …

[HTML][HTML] MicroRNA and cancer

MD Jansson, AH Lund - Molecular oncology, 2012 - Elsevier
With the advent of next generation sequencing techniques a previously unknown world of
non-coding RNA molecules have been discovered. Non-coding RNA transcripts likely …

MicroRNAs and their targets: recognition, regulation and an emerging reciprocal relationship

AE Pasquinelli - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as key gene regulators in diverse biological pathways.
These small non-coding RNAs bind to target sequences in mRNAs, typically resulting in …

The m6A Reader ECT2 Controls Trichome Morphology by Affecting mRNA Stability in Arabidopsis

LH Wei, P Song, Y Wang, Z Lu, Q Tang, Q Yu… - The Plant …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The epitranscriptomic mark N 6-methyladenosine (m6A) can be written, read, and erased via
the action of a complex network of proteins. m6A binding proteins read m6A marks and …