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RNA Journal Club 10/20/11

Posted in RNA Journal Club by YPAA on October 20, 2011

RNAi promotes heterochromatic silencing through replication-coupled release of RNA Pol II

Mikel Zaratiegui, Stephane E. Castel, Danielle V. Irvine, Anna Kloc, Jie Ren, Fei Li, Elisa de Castro, Laura Marín, An-Yun Chang, Derek Goto, W. Zacheus Cande, Francisco Antequera, Benoit Arcangioli & Robert A. Martienssen

Nature AOP, 16 October 2011.
doi:10.1038/nature10501

Oh No Journal Club 10/13/11

Posted in YPAA Journal Club by YPAA on October 13, 2011

Holy smokes–four back-to-back papers on candy RNAs in today’s Cell?!

(1) Coding-Independent Regulation of the Tumor Suppressor PTEN by Competing Endogenous mRNAs

Yvonne Tay, Lev Kats, Leonardo Salmena, Dror Weiss, Shen Mynn Tan, Ugo Ala, Florian Karreth, Laura Poliseno, Paolo Provero, Ferdinando Di Cunto, Judy Lieberman, Isidore Rigoutsos, Pier Paolo Pandolfi

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(2) A Long Noncoding RNA Controls Muscle Differentiation by Functioning as a Competing Endogenous RNA

Marcella Cesana, Davide Cacchiarelli, Ivano Legnini, Tiziana Santini, Olga Sthandier, Mauro Chinappi, Anna Tramontano, Irene Bozzoni

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(3) An Extensive MicroRNA-Mediated Network of RNA-RNA Interactions Regulates Established Oncogenic Pathways in Glioblastoma

Pavel Sumazin, Xuerui Yang, Hua-Sheng Chiu, Wei-Jen Chung, Archana Iyer, David Llobet-Navas, Presha Rajbhandari, Mukesh Bansal, Paolo Guarnieri, Jose Silva, Andrea Califano

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(4) In Vivo Identification of Tumor- Suppressive PTEN ceRNAs in an Oncogenic BRAF-Induced Mouse Model of Melanoma

Florian A. Karreth, Yvonne Tay, Daniele Perna, Ugo Ala, Shen Mynn Tan, Alistair G. Rust, Gina DeNicola, Kaitlyn A. Webster, Dror Weiss, Pedro A. Perez-Mancera, Michael Krauthammer, Ruth Halaban, Paolo Provero, David J. Adams, David A. Tuveson, Pier Paolo Pandolfi

RNA Journal Club 10/13/11

Posted in RNA Journal Club by YPAA on October 13, 2011

Cell Adhesion-Dependent Control of MicroRNA Decay

Young-Kook Kim, Jinah Yeo, Minju Ha, Boseon Kim, and V. Narry Kim

Molecular Cell 43, 1005–1014, 16 September 2011.
DOI 10.1016/j.molcel.2011.07.031

A.G. 351–400

Posted in Abstruse Goose, Lab Life by YPAA on October 12, 2011

A.G. 1−50

Posted in Abstruse Goose, Lab Life by YPAA on October 10, 2011

RNA Journal Club 10/6/11

Posted in RNA Journal Club by YPAA on October 6, 2011

Deciphering 3′ss Selection in the Yeast Genome Reveals an RNA Thermosensor that Mediates Alternative Splicing

Markus Meyer, Mireya Plass, Jorge Pérez-Valle, Eduardo Eyras, and Josep Vilardell

Molecular Cell 43, 1033–1039, 16 September 2011.
DOI 10.1016/j.molcel.2011.07.030