Letters to the Editor:

Kyle Friend, Nikolay G. Kolev, Mei-Di Shu, and Joan A. Steitz

Minor-class splicing occurs in the nucleus of the Xenopus oocyte
RNA 2008 14: 1459-1462. Published in Advance June 20, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.1119708 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplemental Research Data  

Bioinformatics:

Peter J. Shepard and Klemens J. Hertel

Conserved RNA secondary structures promote alternative splicing
RNA 2008 14: 1463-1469. Published in Advance June 25, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.1069408 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplemental Research Data  

Yi Xing, Peter Stoilov, Karen Kapur, Areum Han, Hui Jiang, Shihao Shen, Douglas L. Black, and Wing Hung Wong

MADS: A new and improved method for analysis of differential alternative splicing by exon-tiling microarrays
RNA 2008 14: 1470-1479. Published in Advance June 19, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.1070208 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplemental Research Data  

Tracy Nissan and Roy Parker

Computational analysis of miRNA-mediated repression of translation: Implications for models of translation initiation inhibition
RNA 2008 14: 1480-1491. Published in Advance June 25, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.1072808 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Annalisa Varriale, Giuseppe Torelli, and Giorgio Bernardi

Compositional properties and thermal adaptation of 18S rRNA in vertebrates
RNA 2008 14: 1492-1500. Published in Advance June 20, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.957108 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplemental Research Data  

Reports:

Kwangho Nam, Jiali Gao, and Darrin M. York

Electrostatic interactions in the hairpin ribozyme account for the majority of the rate acceleration without chemical participation by nucleobases
RNA 2008 14: 1501-1507. Published in Advance June 19, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.863108 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplemental Research Data  

Elena V. Dolgosheina, Ryan D. Morin, Gozde Aksay, S. Cenk Sahinalp, Vincent Magrini, Elaine R. Mardis, Jim Mattsson, and Peter J. Unrau

Conifers have a unique small RNA silencing signature
RNA 2008 14: 1508-1515. Published in Advance June 19, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.1052008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplemental Research Data  

Yun Yang, Jianning Lv, Bin Gui, Heng Yin, Xiaojie Wu, Yaozhou Zhang, and Yongfeng Jin

A-to-I RNA editing alters less-conserved residues of highly conserved coding regions: Implications for dual functions in evolution
RNA 2008 14: 1516-1525. Published in Advance June 20, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.1063708 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplemental Research Data  

Julie L. Brunelle, Jeffrey J. Shaw, Elaine M. Youngman, and Rachel Green

Peptide release on the ribosome depends critically on the 2' OH of the peptidyl–tRNA substrate
RNA 2008 14: 1526-1531. Published in Advance June 20, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.1057908 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Konstantin Licht, Jan Medenbach, Reinhard Lührmann, Christian Kambach, and Albrecht Bindereif

3'-cyclic phosphorylation of U6 snRNA leads to recruitment of recycling factor p110 through LSm proteins
RNA 2008 14: 1532-1538. Published in Advance June 20, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.1129608 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Articles:

Martin A. Newman, J. Michael Thomson, and Scott M. Hammond

Lin-28 interaction with the Let-7 precursor loop mediates regulated microRNA processing
RNA 2008 14: 1539-1549. Published in Advance June 19, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.1155108 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplemental Research Data OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Craig R. Stumpf, Judith Kimble, and Marvin Wickens

A Caenorhabditis elegans PUF protein family with distinct RNA binding specificity
RNA 2008 14: 1550-1557. Published in Advance June 25, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.1095908 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplemental Research Data  

Olga Esakova, Anna Perederina, Chao Quan, Mark E. Schmitt, and Andrey S. Krasilnikov

Footprinting analysis demonstrates extensive similarity between eukaryotic RNase P and RNase MRP holoenzymes
RNA 2008 14: 1558-1567. Published in Advance June 25, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.1106408 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Samuel Cordey, Daniel Gerlach, Thomas Junier, Evgeny M. Zdobnov, Laurent Kaiser, and Caroline Tapparel

The cis-acting replication elements define human enterovirus and rhinovirus species
RNA 2008 14: 1568-1578. Published in Advance June 9, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.1031408 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplemental Research Data  

Christian Thoma, Sven Fraterman, Marc Gentzel, Matthias Wilm, and Matthias W. Hentze

Translation initiation by the c-myc mRNA internal ribosome entry sequence and the poly(A) tail
RNA 2008 14: 1579-1589. Published in Advance June 12, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.1043908 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maria A. Borovinskaya, Shinichiro Shoji, Kurt Fredrick, and Jamie H.D. Cate

Structural basis for hygromycin B inhibition of protein biosynthesis
RNA 2008 14: 1590-1599. Published in Advance June 20, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.1076908 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Celeste MacElrevey, Jason D. Salter, Jolanta Krucinska, and Joseph E. Wedekind

Structural effects of nucleobase variations at key active site residue Ade38 in the hairpin ribozyme
RNA 2008 14: 1600-1616. Published in Advance July 2, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.1055308 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Augusto Simoes-Barbosa, Dionigia Meloni, James A. Wohlschlegel, Maria M. Konarska, and Patricia J. Johnson

Spliceosomal snRNAs in the unicellular eukaryote Trichomonas vaginalis are structurally conserved but lack a 5'-cap structure
RNA 2008 14: 1617-1631. Published in Advance July 2, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.1045408 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplemental Research Data  

Kristine R. Julien, Minako Sumita, Po-Han Chen, Ite A. Laird-Offringa, and Charles G. Hoogstraten

Conformationally restricted nucleotides as a probe of structure–function relationships in RNA
RNA 2008 14: 1632-1643. Published in Advance July 2, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.866408 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lakshmi Menon, Samantha Ann Mader, and Mihaela-Rita Mihailescu

Fragile X mental retardation protein interactions with the microtubule associated protein 1B RNA
RNA 2008 14: 1644-1655. Published in Advance June 25, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.1100708 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplemental Research Data  

Jae-hyeong Ko, Mina Izadjoo, and Sidney Altman

Inhibition of expression of virulence genes of Yersinia pestis in Escherichia coli by external guide sequences and RNase P
RNA 2008 14: 1656-1662. Published in Advance June 20, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.1120508 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tomasz P. Jurkowski, Madeleine Meusburger, Sameer Phalke, Mark Helm, Wolfgang Nellen, Gunter Reuter, and Albert Jeltsch

Human DNMT2 methylates tRNA^Asp molecules using a DNA methyltransferase-like catalytic mechanism
RNA 2008 14: 1663-1670. Published in Advance June 20, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.970408 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Graham J. Belsham, Inge Nielsen, Preben Normann, Elizabeth Royall, and Lisa O. Roberts

Monocistronic mRNAs containing defective hepatitis C virus-like picornavirus internal ribosome entry site elements in their 5' untranslated regions are efficiently translated in cells by a cap-dependent mechanism
RNA 2008 14: 1671-1680. Published in Advance June 20, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.1039708 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Matthew S. Marengo and David A. Wassarman

A DNA damage signal activates and derepresses exon inclusion in Drosophila TAF1 alternative splicing
RNA 2008 14: 1681-1695. Published in Advance July 2, 2008 , 10.1261/rna.1048808 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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