Publications

Long noncoding RNAs are defined as transcripts larger than 200 nucleotides but without protein-coding potential. Cumulative evidence points towards an important role of long noncoding RNAs in cancer initiation, development and progression. In this study researchers from the Cancer Research Center of Toulouse sought to evaluate the long noncoding RNA expression profile of patients with cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia. ...

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) that drive tumorigenesis are a growing focus of cancer genomics studies. To facilitate further discovery, researchers at the University of Bern have created the “Cancer LncRNA Census” (CLC), a manually-curated and strictly-defined compilation of lncRNAs with causative roles in cancer. CLC has two principle applications: first, as a resource for training and benchmarking de novo identification methods; and ...

The long non-coding RNA ANRIL, antisense to the CDKN2B locus, is transcribed from a gene that encompasses multiple disease-associated polymorphisms. Despite the identification of multiple isoforms of ANRIL, expression of certain transcripts has been found to be tissue-specific and the characterisation of ANRIL transcripts remains incomplete. Several functions have been associated with ANRIL. In our judgement, studies on ANRIL functionality ...

Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) represents a serious complication of acute liver failure (ALF) in which cerebral edema leading to brainstem herniation as a result of increased intracranial hypertension is a major consequence. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play a significant role in coordinating gene expression, with recent studies indicating an influence in the pathogenesis of several diseases. To investigate their involvement in ...

Avian leukosis virus subgroup J (ALV-J) is an avian oncogenic retrovirus that has led to severe economic losses in the poultry industry in China in recent decades. Here, using high throughput transcriptome sequencing of HD11 and CEF cells infected with ALV-J, researchers from Yangzhou University identified a set of 4804 novel long non-coding transcripts and numerous differentially expressed long non-coding ...

Efforts to resolve the transcribed sequences in the equine genome have focused on protein-coding RNA. The transcription of the intergenic regions, although detected via total RNA sequencing (RNA-seq), has yet to be characterized in the horse. The most recent equine transcriptome based on RNA-seq from several tissues was a prime opportunity to obtain a concurrent long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) database. ...

Through an integration of genomic and proteomic approaches to advance understanding of long noncoding RNAs, researchers from Harvard Medical School investigate the function of the telomeric transcript, TERRA. By identifying thousands of TERRA target sites in the mouse genome, they demonstrate that TERRA can bind both in cis to telomeres and in trans to genic targets. They then define a ...

The denervated hippocampus provides a proper microenvironment for the survival and neuronal differentiation of neural progenitors. While thousands of lncRNAs were identified, only a few lncRNAs that regulate neurogenesis in the hippocampus are reported. Researchers from Nantong University aimed to perform microarray expression profiling to identify long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) that might participate in the hippocampal neurogenesis, and investigate the potential ...

Gene markers of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) have great significance on early diagnosis and treatment of clinical oral cancer. In this study, researchers from the Children Hospital of Chongqing Medical University used RNA-Seq data from OSCC patients and filtered differentially-expressed long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) to further clarify the molecular mechanism. First, they downloaded datasets of OSCC from National Center ...

Keratinocyte-derived cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is the most common metastatic skin cancer. Although some of the early events involved in this pathology have been identified, the subsequent steps leading to tumor development are poorly defined. Researchers from Universite Cote d Azur demonstrate here that the development of mouse tumors induced by the concomitant application of a carcinogen and a ...