Transcript’s abundance is typically considered a proxy of the corresponding genes transcriptional activity. Yet, a poorly transcribed gene could see many of its RNA molecules accumulate just because they are highly stable. Conversely, if a gene is very actively transcribed ...
Read More »Handshakes and Fights: The Regulatory Interplay of RNA-Binding Proteins
What drives the flow of signals controlling the outcome of post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression? This regulatory layer, presiding to processes ranging from splicing to mRNA stability and localization, is a key determinant of protein levels and thus cell phenotypes. ...
Read More »CircNet – a database of circular RNAs derived from transcriptome sequencing data
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) represent a new type of regulatory noncoding RNA that only recently has been identified and cataloged. Emerging evidence indicates that circRNAs exert a new layer of post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. In this study, researchers from the ...
Read More »Leveraging the complementary nature of RNA-Seq and shotgun proteomics data
RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) and mass spectrometry-based shotgun proteomics are powerful high-throughput technologies for identifying and quantifying RNA transcripts and proteins respectively. With the increasing affordability of these technologies, many projects have started to apply both to the same samples to ...
Read More »Transcription Start Site Associated RNAs (TSSaRNAs) Are Ubiquitous in All Domains of Life
A plethora of non-coding RNAs has been discovered using high-resolution transcriptomics tools, indicating that transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation is much more complex than previously appreciated. Small RNAs associated with transcription start sites of annotated coding regions (TSSaRNAs) are pervasive in ...
Read More »Comprehensive Analysis of Alternative Splicing by Strand-Specific RNA-Seq
Digitalis purpurea (D. purpurea) is one of the most important medicinal plants and is well known in the treatment of heart failure because of the cardiac glycosides that are its main active compounds. However, in the absence of strand specific ...
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