Long Non-Coding RNAs

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ugarkovic, Durdica (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology, 51
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Medical genetics.; Molecular biology.; Biochemistry.; Nucleic acids.; Cell biology.; Life Sciences.; Biochemistry, general.; Nucleic Acid Chemistry.; Cell Biology.; Gene Function.; Molecular Medicine.

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), tentatively defined as ncRNAs of more than two hundred nucleotides in length, are characterized by the complexity and diversity of their sequences and mechanisms of action. Based on genome-wide studies, more than 3,300 of them exist, but to date only the limited numbe...

Table of Contents:

• Transcriptional and post-transcriptional programming by long noncoding RNAs
• Long noncoding RNA as a regulator for transcription
• Long non-coding RNAs and X chromosome inactivation
• TERRA: long non-coding RNA at eukaryotic telomeres
• Transcription of satellite DNAs in mammals
• Multiple roles of Alu-related non-coding RNAs
• roX RNAs and genome regulation in Drosophila melanogaster
• Transcription of satellite DNAs in insects
• Long non-protein-coding RNAs in plants.