简介:SmallRNA(sRNA)-mediatedpost-transcriptionalregulationdiffersfromprotein-mediatedregulation.Throughbasepairing,sRNAcanregulatethetargetmRNAinacatalyticorstoichiometricmanner.Sometheoreticalmodelswerebuiltforcomparisonoftheprotein-mediatedandsRNA-mediatedmodesinthesteady-statebehaviorsandnoiseproperties.ManyexperimentsdemonstratedthatasinglesRNAcanregulateseveralmRNAs,whichcausescrosstalkbetweenthetargets.Here,wefocusonsomemodelsinwhichtwotargetmRNAsaresilencedbythesamesRNAtodiscusstheircrosstalkfeatures.Additionally,thesequence-functionrelationshipofsRNAanditsroleinthekineticprocessofbase-pairinghavebeenhighlightedinmodelbuilding.
简介:SmallRNAhasrecentlydrawnmoreandmoreattention.Inthispaper,weconcentrateontheinfluenceofnoisesongenenetworkregulatedbysmallRNAusingchemicalLangevinequation.Itshowsthatthenoisecancauseoscillationwhentheoscillatedoesnotoccurinthecorrespondingdeterministicsystem.Thecoherenceofthenoiseinducedoscillationreachesamaximumforanoptimalintensityofnoise,andthecoherenceresonanceappearsaccordingly.Thefindingsimplyprobablyomnipresentimportanceofnoiseinthefunctioningprocessoflivingorganism.
简介:Recently,RNAprocessinghasemergedasanovelpathwaythatmaycontributetothemaintenanceofgenomestability[1].Alternativesplicingisakeymolecularmechanismforincreasingthefunctionaldiversityoftheeukaryoticproteomes,butitalsooftenalteredincancer.Mountingevidenceindicatesthatalternativesplicing,theprocessthatallowsproductionofmultiplemRNAvariantsfromeachgene,contributestotheheterogeneityofthedisease[2].Althoughthemechanismofalternativesplicingvariantincancerisunclear,thecancer-specificalternativesplicingvariantshavebeenobservedinavarietyofhumancancersandcancercelllinesandhavebeenconnectedtotumorgenesis.
简介:Thefluorescencequenchingofnaphthalene(2)and1,3-di(α-naphthyl)propane(1)byRNAandbasesinmethanol-water(v:v=1:1)binarysolventsinthepresenceorabsenceofcyclodex-trin(CD)hasbeeninvestigated.Theresultsshowthatboththemonomerandexcimerfluorescenceof1canbequenchedbythesequenchers.Thequenchingandratesdependonthequencherandtem-perature.Itisshownthatthereisacriticaltemperature(Tc)foreachquencher.BelowTc,theexcimerfluorescencespectrashowvibrationalstructuresandtheStern-Volmerplotsarestraightlines(forura-cilandcytosine);whileabovetheTc,thevibrationalstructuresdisappearandtheStern-Volmerplotsdeviatefromlinearityandcurveupward.Theformerisastaticprocess;whilethelatterisamixtureofbothstaticanddynamicprocesses.Theadditionofα-CDhasnoeffectonthefinestructure,whereasβ-CDpreventstheappearanceofthisstructureefficiently.Thequenchingratesbothforthemonomerandexcimerof1bybasesexceptcytosineinthepresenceofβ-CDatambienttemperaturearenotchanged;thequenchingoffluorescenceof1byRNAinthepresenceofβ-CD,however,ishindered.Time-resolvedfluorescencestudyshowsthattheexcimerfinestructuresappearfromthezerotime.Theintensityoffinestructuresdependonthefractionofwater(φ)inbinarysolvents,anditisindependentofthepHvalueofthesolvents.ItissuggestedthatbasesandRNAinducedaggregates(perhapsmicrocrystal)areformed,inwhichthemotionofmolecules1islimited.