Circular RNAs in the Mammalian Brain Are Highly Abundant, Conserved, and Dynamically Expressed

Molecular Cell

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 870-885

  Rybak Wolf, Agnieszka ^a   Stottmeister, Christin ^a   Glažar, Petar ^a   Jens, Marvin ^a   Pino, Natalia ^d   Giusti, Sebastian ^d   Hanan, Mor ^b   Behm, Mikaela ^c   Bartok, Osnat ^b   Ashwal Fluss, Reut ^b   Herzog, Margareta ^a   Schreyer, Luisa ^a   Papavasileiou, Panagiotis ^a   Ivanov, Andranik ^a   Öhman, Marie ^c   Refojo, Damian ^d,e   Kadener, Sebastian ^b   Rajewsky, Nikolaus ^a  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^e Bs As   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RNA; RNA, CIRCULAR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; INTRON; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA EDITING; RNA SEQUENCE; SYNAPSE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELL LINE; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CELL LINE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROGENESIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84939419124     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.03.027     Document Type: Article

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