Circular RNAs: Diversity of form and function

RNA

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1829-1842

  Lasda, Erika ^a   Parker, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Backsplicing; CircRNA; Circular RNA; Intermediates; Intron; Nonlinear; Splicing

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR RNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; RNA 23S; RNA POLYMERASE II; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA; RNA SPLICING; RNA, CIRCULAR;

ARCHAEON; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOGENESIS; EXON; EXON SHUFFLING; GENOME; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA METABOLISM; RNA PROCESSING; RNA REPLICATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSPORT; TRANSESTERIFICATION; VIRION; VIROID; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; VIRUS REPLICATION;

INTRONS; MICRORNAS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; VIROIDS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84911491114     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.047126.114     Document Type: Review

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