Human thermogenic adipocyte regulation by the long noncoding RNA LINC00473

Long Noncoding RNA Regulation of Pluripotency

Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) represent a unique kind of stem cell, as they are able to indefinitely self-renew and hold the potential to differentiate into any derivative of the three germ layers. As such, human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESCs) and human induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (hiPSCs) provide a unique opportunity for studying the earliest steps of human embryogenesis and, at the same time...

Long Noncoding RNA-GAS5

Long Noncoding RNA Enriched −

Robert D. Bell, Xiaochun Long, Mingyan Lin, Jan H. Bergmann, Vivek Nanda, Sarah L. Long Noncoding RNA Enriched − Identification and Initial Functional Characterization of a Human Vascular Cell Print ISSN: 1079-5642. Online ISSN: 1524-4636 Copyright © 2014 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 is published by the American Heart Association, 727...

Conserved function of the long noncoding RNA Blnc1 in brown adipocyte differentiation

OBJECTIVE Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are emerging as important regulators of diverse biological processes. Recent work has demonstrated that the inducible lncRNA Blnc1 stimulates thermogenic gene expression during brown and beige adipocyte differentiation. However, whether Blnc1 is functionally conserved in humans has not been explored. In addition, the molecular basis of the Blnc1 ribonucle...

Epigenetic regulation by long noncoding RNAs.

Recent studies show that transcription of the mammalian genome is not only pervasive but also enormously complex. It is estimated that an average of 10 transcription units, the vast majority of which make long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), may overlap each traditional coding gene. These lncRNAs include not only antisense, intronic, and intergenic transcripts but also pseudogenes and retrotransposon...