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Non-Coding RNA, Volume 11, Issue 2

2025 April - 12 articles

Cover Story: Non-coding RNA action is primarily driven by sequence and structural motifs that interact with specific functional partners. Despite the exponential growth in primary RNA sequence data, the availability of tridimensional RNA data is comparatively limited. The underlying reasons for this relative lack of information regarding RNA structure are related to the specific chemical nature of RNA molecules and the limitations of currently available methods for the structural characterization of biomolecules. In this article, we describe and analyze the different structural motifs involved in non-coding RNA function and the wet-lab and computational methods used to characterize their structure–function relationships. View this paper
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Articles (12)

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,299 Views
15 Pages

The Role of Long Non-Coding RNAs in Human Endoderm Differentiation

  • Annanda Lyra Ribeiro and
  • Bruno Dallagiovanna

The human genome sequencing revealed a vast complexity of transcripts, with over 80% of the genome being transcribed into non-coding RNAs. In particular, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as critical regulators of various cellular processes...

(This article belongs to the Section Long Non-Coding RNA)
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,970 Views
20 Pages

Oral cancer (OC) ranks among the most prevalent head and neck cancers, becoming the eleventh most common cancer worldwide with ~350,000 new cases and 177,000 fatalities annually. The rising trend in the occurrence of OC among young individuals and wo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,218 Views
17 Pages

Metabolic reprogramming is a hallmark of cancer, crucial for supporting the rapid energy demands of tumor cells. MYC, often deregulated and overexpressed, is a key driver of this shift, promoting the Warburg effect by enhancing glycolysis. However, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,844 Views
20 Pages

A miRNA Signature for Non-Invasive Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis in Morocco: miR-21, miR-29a and miR-92a

  • Sofia Fathi,
  • Oussama Aazzane,
  • Salma Guendaoui,
  • Nezha Tawfiq and ,
  • Souha Sahraoui,
  • Fadila Guessous and
  • Mehdi Karkouri
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most diagnosed cancer and a leading cause of cancer-related mortality in Morocco, often detected at late stages. Circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as promising non-invasive biomarkers for CRC detection,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Non-coding RNA as Biomarker in Cancer)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
2,166 Views
9 Pages

Chromatin Structure Around Long Non-Coding RNA (lncRNA) Genes in Schistosoma mansoni Gonads

  • Ronaldo C. Augusto,
  • Thomas Quack,
  • Christoph G. Grevelding and
  • Christoph Grunau

In this study, we employed a total of eight distinct modifications of histone proteins (H3K23ac, H3K27me3, H3K36me3, H3K4me3, H3K9ac, H3K9me3, H4K12ac, and H4K20me1) to discern the various chromatin colors encompassing lncRNA genes in both mature and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,902 Views
21 Pages

Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) play crucial roles in colorectal cancer (CRC) development and progression. Recent developments in single-cell transcriptome profiling methods have revealed surprising levels of expression variability among seemingly homogeneo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,428 Views
26 Pages

A Multi-Input Neural Network Model for Accurate MicroRNA Target Site Detection

  • Mohammad Mohebbi,
  • Amirhossein Manzourolajdad,
  • Ethan Bennett and
  • Phillip Williams

(1) Background: MicroRNAs are non-coding RNA sequences that regulate cellular functions by targeting messenger RNAs and inhibiting protein synthesis. Identifying their target sites is vital to understanding their roles. However, it is challenging due...

(This article belongs to the Topic MicroRNA: Mechanisms of Action, Physio-Pathological Implications, and Disease Biomarkers, 3rd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,550 Views
24 Pages

Mechanism of Action of circRNA/miRNA Network in DLBCL

  • Elena Golovina,
  • Cory Eaton,
  • Virginia Cox,
  • Jozef Andel and
  • Karina Savvulidi Vargova

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) make up approximately 10% of the human transcriptome. CircRNAs belong to the broad group of non-coding RNAs and characteristically are formed by backsplicing into a stable circular loop. Their main role is to regulate transcr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,999 Views
14 Pages

MicroRNAs: A Novel Approach for Monitoring Treatment Response in Major Depressive Disorder?

  • Cristina-Sorina Cătană,
  • Monica Mihaela Marta,
  • Daniel Ungureanu and
  • Cătălina-Angela Crișan

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders, with an increasing incidence each year and an important socioeconomic burden. Although new treatments are continuously being developed, there is no effective monitori...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,221 Views
26 Pages

The genomes from complex eukaryotes are enriched in non-coding genes whose transcription products (non-coding RNAs) are involved in the regulation of genomic output at different levels. Non-coding RNA action is predominantly driven by sequence and st...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,003 Views
37 Pages

The Emerging Applications of Artificial MicroRNA-Mediated Gene Silencing in Plant Biotechnology

  • Luis Alberto Bravo-Vázquez,
  • Ana Marta Castro-Pacheco,
  • Rodrigo Pérez-Vargas,
  • Joceline Fernanda Velázquez-Jiménez and
  • Sujay Paul

Improving crop yield potential is crucial to meet the increasing demands of a rapidly expanding global population in an ever-changing and challenging environment. Therefore, different technological approaches have been proposed over the last decades...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Non-Coding RNA and Their Regulatory Roles in Plant)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,550 Views
21 Pages

26 February 2025

RNA inverse design is an essential part of many RNA therapeutic strategies. To date, there have been great advances in computationally driven RNA design. The current machine learning approaches can predict the sequence of an RNA given its 3D structur...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Biology)
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