Evidence map›Paper›PMID 36596869›Full record

ReviewNature reviews. Molecular cell biology2023

Long non-coding RNAs: definitions, functions, challenges and recommendations.

John S Mattick, Paulo P Amaral, Piero Carninci, Susan Carpenter, Howard Y Chang, Ling-Ling Chen, Runsheng Chen, Caroline Dean, Marcel E Dinger, Katherine A Fitzgerald and 19 more

Open access · bronzeAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1,536 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1,536citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
497.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1,536 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 2,071 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
  3. Article
  4. Review
  5. Review
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Review
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Review
  14. Review
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Review
  19. Therapy resistance-related ncRNAs in cervical cancer: biomarkers and therapeutic targets.Daru : journal of Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences · 2026
    Review
  20. Phenotypic switching of gastrointestinal smooth muscle cells and the regulatory role of macrophages: a literature review.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2026
    Review

1,476 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

29 authors at 20 institutions in 12 countries.

John S MattickSchool of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia. j.mattick@unsw.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0002-7680-7527
Paulo P AmaralINSPER Institute of Education and Research, São Paulo, Brazil.
Piero CarninciRIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-7202-7243
Susan CarpenterDepartment of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
Howard Y ChangCenter for Personal Dynamics Regulomes, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9459-4393
Ling-Ling ChenCAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9501-0305
Runsheng ChenKey Laboratory of RNA Biology, Center for Big Data Research in Health, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Caroline DeanJohn Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6555-3525
Marcel E DingerSchool of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-4423-934X
Katherine A FitzgeraldDivision of Innate Immunity, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3175-609X
Thomas R GingerasCold Spring Harbour Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbour, NY, USA.
Mitchell GuttmanDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4748-9352
Tetsuro HiroseGraduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-1068-5464
Maite HuarteDepartment of Gene Therapy and Regulation of Gene Expression, Center for Applied Medical Research, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3753-6493
Rory JohnsonSchool of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Chandrasekhar KanduriDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-6271-9078
Philipp KapranovInstitute of Genomics, School of Medicine, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China.
Jeanne B LawrenceDepartment of Neurology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6572-3128
Jeannie T LeeDepartment of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7786-8850
Joshua T MendellHoward Hughes Medical Institute, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8479-2284
Timothy R MercerAustralian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Kathryn J MooreDepartment of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Shinichi NakagawaRNA Biology Laboratory, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
John L RinnDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.
David L SpectorCold Spring Harbour Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbour, NY, USA.
Igor UlitskyDepartment of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-0555-6561
Yue WanLaboratory of RNA Genomics and Structure, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, Singapore, Singapore.
Jeremy E WiluszVerna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Therapeutic Innovation Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6929-8755
Mian WuTranslational Research Institute, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Academy of Medical Science, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USChinese Academy of Sciences · CNCold Spring Harbor Laboratory · USUniversity of Massachusetts Chan Medical School · USUNSW Sydney · AUAgency for Science, Technology and Research · SGBaylor College of Medicine · USCalifornia Institute of Technology · USHarvard University · USHokkaido University · JPHuaqiao University · CNHuman Technopole · ITInsper · BRJohn Innes Centre · GBNavarre Institute of Health Research · ESNew York University · USThe University of Queensland · AUUbe Frontier University · JPUniversity College Dublin · IEUniversity of California, Santa Cruz · US

Funding

VIRAL TRANSACTIVATIONP01CA013106 · NCI · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI William Richard McCombie · 1985 to 2026
$116.8M
Non-coding RNA regulation of cholesterol homeostasis and atherosclerosisR35HL135799 · NHLBI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI MOORE, KATHRYN J · 2017 to 2023
$6.7M
RNA and Genomic Junk in Fundamental Chromosome Architecture and RegulationR35GM122597 · NIGMS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI JEANNE Bentley LAWRENCE · 2017 to 2026
$5.3M
A Novel Approach to Molecular Cell Pathologies of Human Down Syndrome and DS-ADR01HD091357 · NICHD · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI JEANNE Bentley LAWRENCE · 2017 to 2026
$4.5M
Regulatory roles for the Integrator complex and circular RNAsR35GM119735 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI WILUSZ, JEREMY E · 2016 to 2025
$4.1M
Spreading of Xist RNA and Polycomb complexes along the inactive X-chromosome.R01HD097665 · NICHD · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI LEE, JEANNIE T · 2019 to 2023
$3.5M
Translational Epigenetics with XIST: Silencing Trisomy in Human Organoid and Mouse Models of Down SyndromeR01HD094788 · NICHD · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI LAWRENCE, JEANNE BENTLEY · 2018 to 2022
$2.8M
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/C517633/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/D010799/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/E009662/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/G009562/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/G01406X/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/J/00000581Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/J/0000A199Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/J/0000A219Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/J/000CA305Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/J/000CA344Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/J/000CA355Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/J/000CA369Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/J/000CA376Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/J/000CA378Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/J/000PR9773Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/J/000PR9788Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council G20334NCI NIH HHS P01 CA013106NHLBI NIH HHS R35 HL135799NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD091357NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD094788NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD097665NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM119735NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM122597
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genes specifying long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) occupy a large fraction of the genomes of complex organisms. The term 'lncRNAs' encompasses RNA polymerase I (Pol I), Pol II and Pol III transcribed RNAs, and RNAs from processed introns. The various functions of lncRNAs and their many isoforms and interleaved relationships with other genes make lncRNA classification and annotation difficult. Most lncRNAs evolve more rapidly than protein-coding sequences, are cell type specific and regulate many aspects of cell differentiation and development and other physiological processes. Many lncRNAs associate with chromatin-modifying complexes, are transcribed from enhancers and nucleate phase separation of nuclear condensates and domains, indicating an intimate link between lncRNA expression and the spatial control of gene expression during development. lncRNAs also have important roles in the cytoplasm and beyond, including in the regulation of translation, metabolism and signalling. lncRNAs often have a modular structure and are rich in repeats, which are increasingly being shown to be relevant to their function. In this Consensus Statement, we address the definition and nomenclature of lncRNAs and their conservation, expression, phenotypic visibility, structure and functions. We also discuss research challenges and provide recommendations to advance the understanding of the roles of lncRNAs in development, cell biology and disease.

Indexed as

RNA, Long NoncodingCell NucleusChromatinRegulatory Sequences, Nucleic AcidRNA Polymerase IIChromatinRNA, Long NoncodingRNA Polymerase II

Identifiers

PMID36596869
PMCPMC10213152
OpenAlexW4313488537

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.