Functions of plants long non-coding RNAs

Sarfraz Shafiq; Jingrui Li; Qianwen Sun

doi:10.1016/j.bbagrm.2015.06.009

Functions of plants long non-coding RNAs

Biochim Biophys Acta. 2016 Jan;1859(1):155-62. doi: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2015.06.009. Epub 2015 Jun 22.

Authors

Sarfraz Shafiq¹, Jingrui Li¹, Qianwen Sun²

Affiliations

¹ Center for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences and Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
² Center for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences and Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. Electronic address: sunqianwen@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.

PMID: 26112461
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2015.06.009

Abstract

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been emerged as important players for various biological pathways, including dosage compensation, genomic imprinting, chromatin regulation, alternative splicing and nuclear organization. A large number of lncRNAs had already been identified by different approaches in plants, while the functions of only a few of them have been investigated. This review will summarize our current understanding of a wide range of plant lncRNAs functions, and highlight their roles in the regulation of diverse pathways in plants. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Clues to long noncoding RNA taxonomy1, edited by Dr. Tetsuro Hirose and Dr. Shinichi Nakagawa.

Keywords: Flowering Locus C; Gene regulation; Long non-coding RNAs; Plant epigenetics.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Alternative Splicing / genetics*
Cell Nucleus
Chromatin / genetics*
Genomic Imprinting*
Plants / genetics
RNA, Long Noncoding / genetics*

Substances

Chromatin
RNA, Long Noncoding