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Characteristics of Antisense Transcript Promoters and the Regulation of Their Activity

Recently, an increasing number of studies on natural antisense transcripts have been reported, especially regarding their classification, temporal and spatial expression patterns, regulatory functions and mechanisms. It is well established that natural antisense transcripts are produced from the str...

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Autores principales: Lin, Shudai, Zhang, Li, Luo, Wen, Zhang, Xiquan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4730256/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26703594
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms17010009
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Zhang, Li
Luo, Wen
Zhang, Xiquan
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Zhang, Xiquan
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description Recently, an increasing number of studies on natural antisense transcripts have been reported, especially regarding their classification, temporal and spatial expression patterns, regulatory functions and mechanisms. It is well established that natural antisense transcripts are produced from the strand opposite to the strand encoding a protein. Despite the pivotal roles of natural antisense transcripts in regulating the expression of target genes, the transcriptional mechanisms initiated by antisense promoters (ASPs) remain unknown. To date, nearly all of the studies conducted on this topic have focused on the ASP of a single gene of interest, whereas no study has systematically analyzed the locations of ASPs in the genome, ASP activity, or factors influencing this activity. This review focuses on elaborating on and summarizing the characteristics of ASPs to extend our knowledge about the mechanisms of antisense transcript initiation.
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spelling pubmed-47302562016-02-11 Characteristics of Antisense Transcript Promoters and the Regulation of Their Activity Lin, Shudai Zhang, Li Luo, Wen Zhang, Xiquan Int J Mol Sci Review Recently, an increasing number of studies on natural antisense transcripts have been reported, especially regarding their classification, temporal and spatial expression patterns, regulatory functions and mechanisms. It is well established that natural antisense transcripts are produced from the strand opposite to the strand encoding a protein. Despite the pivotal roles of natural antisense transcripts in regulating the expression of target genes, the transcriptional mechanisms initiated by antisense promoters (ASPs) remain unknown. To date, nearly all of the studies conducted on this topic have focused on the ASP of a single gene of interest, whereas no study has systematically analyzed the locations of ASPs in the genome, ASP activity, or factors influencing this activity. This review focuses on elaborating on and summarizing the characteristics of ASPs to extend our knowledge about the mechanisms of antisense transcript initiation. MDPI 2015-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4730256/ /pubmed/26703594 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms17010009 Text en © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Characteristics of Antisense Transcript Promoters and the Regulation of Their Activity
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title_short Characteristics of Antisense Transcript Promoters and the Regulation of Their Activity
title_sort characteristics of antisense transcript promoters and the regulation of their activity
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4730256/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26703594
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms17010009
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