"RNA Processing" ed. by Paula Grabowski

The collection of articles in this volume describes the current state of understanding of the broad array of RNA processing events in animal and plant cells, key unanswered questions, and cutting edge approaches available to address these questions. Some questions discussed in this volume include, how viruses subvert the RNA processing machinery of the host cell, how the coordination of co-transcriptional RNA processing is regulated at the level of chromatin, the status of RNA processing in plant organelles, and how micro RNA machinery is biosynthesized and regulated.

RNA functions broadly as informational molecule, genome, enzyme and machinery for RNA processing. While these functions reflect ancient activities, they also remain vital components of contemporary biochemical pathways. In eukaryotic cells RNA processing impacts the biogenesis of RNA molecules of essentially every shape and function.

Contents
Preface
Part 1 RNA Processing and Chromatin
1 Chromatin Remodelling and RNA Processing
2 Hide and Go Seek: Activation of the Secretory-Specific Poly (A) Site of Igh by Transcription Elongation Factors
3 The Worlds of Splicing and Chromatin Collide
Part 2 RNA Processing and Viral Systems
4 The Regulation of HIV-1 mRNA Biogenesis
5 Subversion of RNA Processing Pathways by the Hepatitis delta Virus
Part 3 RNA Processing in Diverse Model Systems
6 Alternative Polyadenylation in Yeast: З'-UTR Elements and Processing Factors Acting at a Distance
7 RNA Processing Activities of the Arabidopsis Argonaute Protein Family
8 RNAi in Agriculturally-lmportant Arthropods
9 RNA Processing During Early Embrvogenesis: Managing Storage. Utilisation and Destruction
Part 4 RNA Processing Factors
10 Recent Advances in Understanding of Alternative Splicing in Neuronal Pathogenesis
11 The Lsm Proteins: Ring Architectures for RNA Capture