Circular RNA: A new star of noncoding RNAs

Cancer Letters

Volumn 365, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 141-148

  Qu, Shibin ^a   Yang, Xisheng ^a   Li, Xiaolei ^a   Wang, Jianlin ^a   Gao, Yuan ^a   Shang, Runze ^a   Sun, Wei ^a   Dou, Kefeng ^a   Li, Haimin ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alternative circularization; Biomarker; Circular RNA; Gene expression regulation; MicroRNA sponge

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; CANCER GROWTH FACTOR; CANCER GROWTH FACTOR BETA; CIRCULAR RNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; PRION PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; EXORIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE R; RNA; RNA, CIRCULAR;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BINDING SITE; BIOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DOWN REGULATION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; INTRON; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE, METABOLISM AND FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SHORT SURVEY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPLICEOSOME; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EXORIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RNA; RNA SPLICING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84937638960     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: 18727980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2015.06.003     Document Type: Review

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