RNA BiologyPub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-02-27DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2025.2470511
Jennifer Jungfleisch, Fátima Gebauer
{"title":"RNA-binding proteins as therapeutic targets in cancer.","authors":"Jennifer Jungfleisch, Fátima Gebauer","doi":"10.1080/15476286.2025.2470511","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15476286.2025.2470511","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) have emerged as critical regulators of cancer progression, influencing virtually all hallmarks of cancer. Their ability to modulate gene expression patterns that promote or inhibit tumorigenesis has positioned RBPs as promising targets for novel anti-cancer therapies. This mini-review summarizes the current state of RBP-targeted cancer treatments, focusing on five examples, eIF4F, FTO, SF3B1, RBM39 and nucleolin. We highlight the diversity of current targeting approaches and discuss ongoing challenges including the complexity of RBP regulatory networks, potential off-target effects and the need for more specific targeting methods. By assessing the future potential of novel therapeutic avenues, we provide insights into the evolving landscape of cancer treatment and the critical role RBPs may play in next-generation therapeutics.</p>","PeriodicalId":21351,"journal":{"name":"RNA Biology","volume":"22 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11869776/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143524272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RNA BiologyPub Date : 2025-04-01DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2025.2486281
Zhongneng Xu, Shuichi Asakawa
{"title":"Release and degradation of dissolved environmental RNAs from zebrafish cells.","authors":"Zhongneng Xu, Shuichi Asakawa","doi":"10.1080/15476286.2025.2486281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15476286.2025.2486281","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The sources and degradation profiles of dissolved environmental RNAs from fish in water remain unknown. In this study, laboratory experiments and mathematical modelling were conducted to investigate the permeability of RNA extracted from zebrafish cells through filters, the release of dissolved environmental RNAs from live and dying zebrafish cells, and the degradation of RNA extracted from zebrafish cells in a non-sterile aqueous environment. This research aimed to provide biological and ecological insights into fish RNAs dissolved in water. The results showed that most of the RNA extracted from zebrafish cells was detected in the filtrates after passage through 0.45 µm filters. Over the course of the 6-day experiment, dynamic levels of the RNAs in the liquid environment containing live or dying zebrafish cells were determined. The release and degradation rates of dissolved environmental RNA from zebrafish cells were calculated using mathematical modelling. RNA extracted from zebrafish cells degraded in non-sterile water in the tubes, and after 2 months, more than 15% of the RNAs in the water remained detectable. The half-life of the RNA in the tubes was approximately 20 ~ 43 days. The modelling results suggest that the levels of the dissolved environmental fish RNAs in natural waters or aquariums could be so low that it would be difficult to detect them using current techniques. The results obtained in this study will help develop new methods for measuring the dynamics of dissolved environmental fish RNAs in water and determining their significance.</p>","PeriodicalId":21351,"journal":{"name":"RNA Biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143754369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RNA BiologyPub Date : 2025-03-25DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2025.2484519
Katrin Damm, Paul Klemm, Marcus Lechner, Dominik Helmecke, Roland K Hartmann
{"title":"S-1 pRNA 9-mers are a prominent length species during outgrowth of <i>Bacillus subtilis</i> cells from extended stationary phase.","authors":"Katrin Damm, Paul Klemm, Marcus Lechner, Dominik Helmecke, Roland K Hartmann","doi":"10.1080/15476286.2025.2484519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15476286.2025.2484519","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bacterial RNA polymerases (RNAP) utilize 6S RNAs as templates to synthesize ultrashort transcripts (up to ~ 14 nt), termed product RNAs (pRNAs), that play a key role in reversing the blockage of RNAP by 6S RNA. Here we resolved the pRNA length profile of 6 S-1 RNA from <i>Bacillus subtilis</i>, a major model system for the study of 6S RNA biology, during outgrowth of cells from extended stationary phase. 9-mers were found to be a particularly abundant pRNA length species, followed by 8/10/11-mers and 13/14-mers. Consistent with <i>in vitro</i> data from the <i>Escherichia coli</i> system, these findings support the mechanistic model according to which the housekeeping sigma factor (σ<sup>70</sup> or σ<sup>A</sup>) dissociates from 6S RNA:RNAP complexes upon synthesis of pRNA 9-mers, followed by final dissociation of 6S RNA and RNAP upon synthesis of longer pRNAs (13/14-mers). Methodologically, the identification of such ultrashort RNAs in total cellular extracts by RNA-Seq is inefficient with standard protocols using adapter ligation to RNA 3'-ends for reverse transcription and PCR-based cDNA sequencing. Here, we demonstrate that ultrashort RNAs can instead be incorporated into RNA-Seq libraries by polyA, polyC and potentially also polyU tailing of their 3'-ends. At positions where a non-tailing nucleotide is followed by one or more tailing nucleotides, an algorithm that integrates RNA-Seq results from at least two different 3'-end tailings allows one to approximate the fraction of read counts at such ambiguous positions. Finally, methodological biases and potential applications of our approach to other short RNAs are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":21351,"journal":{"name":"RNA Biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143710720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An orthology-based methodology as a complementary approach to retrieve evolutionarily conserved A-to-I RNA editing sites.","authors":"Jiyao Liu,Tianyou Zhao,Caiqing Zheng,Ling Ma,Fan Song,Li Tian,Wanzhi Cai,Hu Li,Yuange Duan","doi":"10.1080/15476286.2024.2397757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15476286.2024.2397757","url":null,"abstract":"Adar-mediated adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) mRNA editing is a conserved mechanism that exerts diverse regulatory functions during the development, evolution, and adaptation of metazoans. The accurate detection of RNA editing sites helps us understand their biological significance. In this work, with an improved genome assembly of honeybee (Apis mellifera), we used a new orthology-based methodology to complement the traditional pipeline of (de novo) RNA editing detection. Compared to the outcome of traditional pipeline, we retrieved many novel editing sites in CDS that are deeply conserved between honeybee and other distantly related insects. The newly retrieved sites were missed by the traditional de novo identification due to the stringent criteria for controlling false-positive rate. Caste-specific editing sites are identified, including an Ile>Met auto-recoding site in Adar. This recoding was even conserved between honeybee and bumblebee, suggesting its putative regulatory role in shaping the phenotypic plasticity of eusocial Hymenoptera. In summary, we proposed a complementary approach to the traditional pipeline and retrieved several previously unnoticed CDS editing sites. From both technical and biological aspects, our works facilitate future researches on finding the functional editing sites and advance our understanding on the connection between RNA editing and the great phenotypic diversity of organisms.","PeriodicalId":21351,"journal":{"name":"RNA Biology","volume":"22 1","pages":"29-45"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RNA BiologyPub Date : 2024-09-10DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2024.2395718
Andre Brezski,Justin Murtagh,Marcel H Schulz,Kathi Zarnack
{"title":"A systematic analysis of circRNAs in subnuclear compartments.","authors":"Andre Brezski,Justin Murtagh,Marcel H Schulz,Kathi Zarnack","doi":"10.1080/15476286.2024.2395718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15476286.2024.2395718","url":null,"abstract":"CircRNAs are an important class of RNAs with diverse cellular functions in human physiology and disease. A thorough knowledge of circRNAs including their biogenesis and subcellular distribution is important to understand their roles in a wide variety of processes. However, the analysis of circRNAs from total RNA sequencing data remains challenging. Therefore, we developed Calcifer, a versatile workflow for circRNA annotation. Using Calcifer, we analysed APEX-Seq data to compare circRNA occurrence between whole cells, nucleus and subnuclear compartments. We generally find that circRNAs show higher abundance in whole cells compared to nuclear samples, consistent with their accumulation in the cytoplasm. The notable exception is the single-exon circRNA circCANX(9), which is unexpectedly enriched in the nucleus. In addition, we observe that circFIRRE prevails over the linear lncRNA FIRRE in both the cytoplasm and the nucleus. Zooming in on the subnuclear compartments, we show that circRNAs are strongly depleted from nuclear speckles, indicating that excess splicing factors in this compartment counteract back-splicing. Our results thereby provide valuable insights into the subnuclear distribution of circRNAs. Regarding circRNA function, we surprisingly find that the majority of all detected circRNAs possess complete open reading frames with potential for cap-independent translation. Overall, we show that Calcifer is an easy-to-use, versatile and sustainable workflow for the annotation of circRNAs which expands the repertoire of circRNA tools and allows to gain new insights into circRNA distribution and function.","PeriodicalId":21351,"journal":{"name":"RNA Biology","volume":"77 1","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Silencing LINC00663 inhibits inflammation and angiogenesis through downregulation of NR2F1 via EBF1 in bladder cancer","authors":"Xiulong Zhong, Lijiang Sun, Junxiang Liu, Xiaokun Yang, Minghui Hou, Xinning Wang, Huifeng Diao","doi":"10.1080/15476286.2024.2368304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15476286.2024.2368304","url":null,"abstract":"This study is to elucidate the effect of the LINC00663/EBF1/NR2F1 axis on inflammation and angiogenesis in bladder cancer (BC) and related molecular mechanisms. After transfection, functional exper...","PeriodicalId":21351,"journal":{"name":"RNA Biology","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141550256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RNA BiologyPub Date : 2024-04-17DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2024.2340297
Josephine Davey-Young, Farah Hasan, Rasangi Tennakoon, Peter Rozik, Henry Moore, Peter Hall, Ecaterina Cozma, Julie Genereaux, Kyle S. Hoffman, Patricia P. Chan, Todd M. Lowe, Christopher J. Brandl, Patrick O’Donoghue
{"title":"Mistranslating the genetic code with leucine in yeast and mammalian cells","authors":"Josephine Davey-Young, Farah Hasan, Rasangi Tennakoon, Peter Rozik, Henry Moore, Peter Hall, Ecaterina Cozma, Julie Genereaux, Kyle S. Hoffman, Patricia P. Chan, Todd M. Lowe, Christopher J. Brandl, Patrick O’Donoghue","doi":"10.1080/15476286.2024.2340297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15476286.2024.2340297","url":null,"abstract":"Translation fidelity relies on accurate aminoacylation of transfer RNAs (tRNAs) by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (AARSs). AARSs specific for alanine (Ala), leucine (Leu), serine, and pyrrolysine do no...","PeriodicalId":21351,"journal":{"name":"RNA Biology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140617406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RNA BiologyPub Date : 2024-04-16DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2024.2342685
Étienne Fafard-Couture, Stéphane Labialle, Michelle S Scott
{"title":"The regulatory roles of small nucleolar RNAs within their host locus","authors":"Étienne Fafard-Couture, Stéphane Labialle, Michelle S Scott","doi":"10.1080/15476286.2024.2342685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15476286.2024.2342685","url":null,"abstract":"Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are a class of conserved noncoding RNAs forming complexes with proteins to catalyse site-specific modifications on ribosomal RNA. Besides this canonical role, several...","PeriodicalId":21351,"journal":{"name":"RNA Biology","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140570505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RNA BiologyPub Date : 2024-04-02DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2024.2337493
Silvia D’Ambrosi, Raquel García-Vílchez, Darek Kedra, Patrice Vitali, Nuria Macias-Cámara, Laura Bárcena, Monika Gonzalez-Lopez, Ana M. Aransay, Sabine Dietmann, Antonio Hurtado, Sandra Blanco
{"title":"Global and single-nucleotide resolution detection of 7-methylguanosine in RNA","authors":"Silvia D’Ambrosi, Raquel García-Vílchez, Darek Kedra, Patrice Vitali, Nuria Macias-Cámara, Laura Bárcena, Monika Gonzalez-Lopez, Ana M. Aransay, Sabine Dietmann, Antonio Hurtado, Sandra Blanco","doi":"10.1080/15476286.2024.2337493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15476286.2024.2337493","url":null,"abstract":"RNA modifications, including N-7-methylguanosine (m7G), are pivotal in governing RNA stability and gene expression regulation. The accurate detection of internal m7G modifications is of paramount s...","PeriodicalId":21351,"journal":{"name":"RNA Biology","volume":"202 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140570507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}