Small Interfering RNAs Targeting a Chromatin-Associated RNA Induce Its Transcriptional Silencing in Human Cells.

Transcriptional gene silencing by small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) has been widely described in various species, including plants and yeast. In mammals, its extent remains somewhat debated. Previous studies showed that siRNAs targeting gene promoters could induce the silencing of the targeted promoter, although the involvement of off-target mechanisms was also suggested.

Circular isoforms switch from repressors to activators of expression during RAF1 oncogene-induced senescence.

Long non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are major regulators of gene expression and cell fate. The locus encodes the tumour suppressor proteins p15, p16 and p14 required for cell cycle arrest and whose expression increases during senescence. is a ncRNA antisense to the gene.

Correction: Achieving high resolution and optimizing sensitivity in spatial frequency encoding NMR spectroscopy: from theory to practice.

Correction for 'Achieving high resolution and optimizing sensitivity in spatial frequency encoding NMR spectroscopy: from theory to practice' by Bertrand Plainchont et al., Phys. Chem.

Achieving high resolution and optimizing sensitivity in spatial frequency encoding NMR spectroscopy: from theory to practice.

A detailed analysis of NMR spectra acquired based on spatial frequency encoding is presented. A theoretical model to simulate gradient encoded pulses is developed in order to describe the spatial properties of the NMR signals that are locally created throughout the sample. The key features that affect the efficiency of the slice selection process during excitation as well as refocusing pulses are investigated on a model ABX spin system, both theoretically and experimentally.

Combining J-edited and correlation spectroscopies within a multi-dimensional spatial frequency encoding: toward fully resolved 1H NMR spectra.

J-resolved at a glance: Passive coupling refocusing-COSY experiments based on a frequency encoding of the sample along two directions of space are presented. It allows various spin evolutions to be triggered in different parts of the sample in a selective and fully controlled manner. This yields 2D spectra in which the whole proton network appears as a series of fully resolved and straightforwardly assignable doublets, triplets or quartets (see figure).