Functions and properties of nuclear lncRNAs—from systematically mapping the interactomes of lncRNAs

Autor: Chia-Yu Guh, Yu-Hung Hsieh, Hsueh-Ping Chu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of Biomedical Science, Vol 27, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1423-0127
DOI: 10.1186/s12929-020-00640-3
Popis: Abstract Protein and DNA have been considered as the major components of chromatin. But beyond that, an increasing number of studies show that RNA occupies a large amount of chromatin and acts as a regulator of nuclear architecture. A significant fraction of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) prefers to stay in the nucleus and cooperate with protein complexes to modulate epigenetic regulation, phase separation, compartment formation, and nuclear organization. An RNA strand also can invade into double-stranded DNA to form RNA:DNA hybrids (R-loops) in living cells, contributing to the regulation of gene expression and genomic instability. In this review, we discuss how nuclear lncRNAs orchestrate cellular processes through their interactions with proteins and DNA and summarize the recent genome-wide techniques to study the functions of lncRNAs by revealing their interactomes in vivo.
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