title: The enigmatic world of mRNA-like ncRNAs: their role in human evolution and in human diseases.
abstract: Accumulating data on non-protein-coding transcripts suggest that besides the regulatory machinery driven by proteins, another yet enigmatic regulatory network of RNA molecules operates and has considerable impact on cell functions. Moreover, deregulation of these non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) has been documented in several human diseases suggesting that they may significantly contribute to their pathogenesis. This review summarizes our present knowledge on the role of the so-called mRNA-like ncRNAs in the complexity of multicellular organisms. We provide some examples to show how these mRNA-like non-coding RNAs have been discovered, how their cellular functions and role in the pathogenesis of human diseases have been revealed.
authors.affiliation: Dermatological Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, University of Szeged, 6720 Szeged, Korányi fasor 6, Hungary. szell@mail.derma.szote.u-szeged.hu
authors.forename: Márta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Széll
authors.forename: Zsuzsanna
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Bata-Csörgo
authors.forename: Lajos
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kemény
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004194:Disease / Q000209:etiology*; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D015894:Genome, Human; D015186:Hominidae / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D035683:MicroRNAs / Q000235:genetics*; D011565:Psoriasis / Q000235:genetics; D022661:RNA, Untranslated / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D035683:MicroRNAs; D022661:RNA, Untranslated