Abstract

Doc number: 59

Abstract: Long non-protein-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are proposed to be the largest transcript class in the mouse and human transcriptomes. Two important questions are whether all lncRNAs are functional and how they could exert a function. Several lncRNAs have been shown to function through their product, but this is not the only possible mode of action. In this review we focus on a role for the process of lncRNA transcription, independent of the lncRNA product, in regulating protein-coding-gene activity in cis . We discuss examples where lncRNA transcription leads to gene silencing or activation, and describe strategies to determine if the lncRNA product or its transcription causes the regulatory effect.

Details

Title
Gene regulation by the act of long non-coding RNA transcription
Author
Kornienko, Aleksandra E; Guenzl, Philipp M; Barlow, Denise P; Pauler, Florian M
Pages
59
Publication year
2013
Publication date
2013
Publisher
BioMed Central
e-ISSN
17417007
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
1364611425
Copyright
© 2013 Kornienko et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.