Understanding the Genomic Ultraconservations: T-UCRs and Cancer

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Abstract

Transcribed ultraconserved regions (T-UCRs) are genomic regions conserved across large evolutionary distances, which encode for noncoding RNAs that serve as regulators of gene expression. Although T-UCRs have been linked to multiple aspects of mammalian gene regulation, the roles of their extreme evolutionary conservation remain largely unexplained. Growing body of literature is now focusing on T-UCRs as potential cancer biomarkers or as new drug targets. Here we present an overview of the discoveries so far published about the role of T-UCR in cancer and disease.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationInternational Review of Cell and Molecular Biology
PublisherElsevier Inc.
Pages159-172
Number of pages14
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

Publication series

NameInternational Review of Cell and Molecular Biology
Volume333
ISSN (Print)1937-6448

Keywords

  • Cancer
  • Noncoding RNA
  • T-UCR
  • Transcribed ultraconserved region

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cell Biology

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