Circular RNAs in the Central Nervous System

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are endogenous single-stranded RNAs characterized by covalently closed loop structures with neither 5′ to 3′ polarity nor poly(A) tails. They are generated most commonly from back-splicing of protein-coding exons. CircRNAs have a tissue-specific distribution and are evolutio...

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Main Authors: Meng-Lan Li, Wen Wang, Zi-Bing Jin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2021.629593/full