What is the significance of transcription factor binding to regulatory RNA?
@DimpleNotani and colleagues @NCBS_Bangalore show that it stabilizes ERα binding to promoters with weak recognition motifs, but also reduces their transcriptional output
https://t.co/3l4O73dQRZ
Finally out in @Cellcellpress!
Proteins with long intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are prone to misfolding during protein synthesis.
This is prevented by mRNA 3′UTRs that act as mRNA-based IDR chaperones.
https://t.co/Pa4bWYhOMe
Does PRC2 interact with RNA or is it an artefact? See our preprint showing how stringent denaturing purifications with spike-in controls support direct interaction between PRC2 and RNA in cells. https://t.co/RwMWdPpROk
Our paper is finally out in Cell! Years of work on one of biology's most beautiful tissue clocks, and finding an intrinsic oscillator that helps organize tissue dynamics. From my PhD work at @LongCai_Lab, with Shosei Yoshida and Ben Simons!
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https://t.co/fRFxG3rbo2
A newly identified spino-brain-spinal cord loop linking the thalamus, somatosensory cortex, and superior colliculus to descending RVMSC neurons specifically drives chronic mechanical pain, and may offer new cellular targets for intervention. #PainResearch https://t.co/urdGRrf9up
Our paper just went live on @NatureAging. Peroxisomes are understudied & regarded as organelles with functions ancillary to those of the mitochondria. We shift this paradigm by demonstrating how peroxisomes actively guide organelles cascades & maintain them to drive healthy aging
🧬 Following up on RNA-seq hits just got faster.
You can now explore detailed gene information directly inside the RNA-seq interactive results dashboard.
Hover over genes in the expression plot or volcano plot, and you’ll see a quick summary tooltip. Then, click to open a detailed info drawer with expanded gene summaries, related pathways, helpful links, and more.
No more copying gene names into Google just to figure out what you’re looking at 🎉
Now out in @NatureBiotech ! Do lncRNAs commonly bind 1000s of genomic sites? Maybe they do, but the dozens of studies that report genomic binding maps of lncRNAs are deeply flawed, with probes binding suprious DNA sites rather than RNA-bound ones. https://t.co/01NroM67dK
Pierre Chambon, pionnier de la biologie moléculaire, est mort.
Il avait accumulé de brillantes distinctions et signé plus de 900 publications. Il s’est éteint jeudi 7 mai à l’âge de 95 ans.
https://t.co/qGQ79hqDkK #génétique
Depletion of sex hormones that enable male development induces neuroinflammation that disrupts hormonal signalling and immune responses against brain tumours
https://t.co/nDwYngPtuY
If you want to know what 3′UTRs with long conserved sequence stretches do, check out our BioRxiv preprint https://t.co/ZpGfAnjAYV.
They form functional intermolecular 3′UTR-3′UTR interactions that enable co-folding of proteins to rapidly induce transcriptional programs.