Long non-coding RNAs: roles in cellular stress responses and epigenetic mechanisms regulating chromatin

Autor: Jeffrey A. Nickerson, Fatemeh Momen-Heravi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Nucleus, Vol 15, Iss 1 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 19491034
1949-1042
1949-1034
DOI: 10.1080/19491034.2024.2350180
Popis: Most of the genome is transcribed into RNA but only 2% of the sequence codes for proteins. Non-coding RNA transcripts include a very large number of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs). A growing number of identified lncRNAs operate in cellular stress responses, for example in response to hypoxia, genotoxic stress, and oxidative stress. Additionally, lncRNA plays important roles in epigenetic mechanisms operating at chromatin and in maintaining chromatin architecture. Here, we address three lncRNA topics that have had significant recent advances. The first is an emerging role for many lncRNAs in cellular stress responses. The second is the development of high throughput screening assays to develop causal relationships between lncRNAs across the genome with cellular functions. Finally, we turn to recent advances in understanding the role of lncRNAs in regulating chromatin architecture and epigenetics, advances that build on some of the earliest work linking RNA to chromatin architecture.
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