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- Title
Post-transcriptional gene regulation: from genome-wide studies to principles.
- Authors
Halbeisen, R E; Galgano, A; Scherrer, T; Gerber, A P
- Abstract
Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression plays important roles in diverse cellular processes such as development, metabolism and cancer progression. Whereas many classical studies explored the mechanistics and physiological impact on specific mRNA substrates, the recent development of genome-wide analysis tools enables the study of post-transcriptional gene regulation on a global scale. Importantly, these studies revealed distinct programs of RNA regulation, suggesting a complex and versatile post-transcriptional regulatory network. This network is controlled by specific RNA-binding proteins and/or non-coding RNAs, which bind to specific sequence or structural elements in the RNAs and thereby regulate subsets of mRNAs that partly encode functionally related proteins. It will be a future challenge to link the spectra of targets for RNA-binding proteins to post-transcriptional regulatory programs and to reveal its physiological implications.
- Publication
Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, 2008, Vol 65, Issue 5, p798
- ISSN
1420-682X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00018-007-7447-6