Circ-ZNF609 Is a Circular RNA that Can Be Translated and Functions in Myogenesis

Molecular Cell

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 22-37.e9

  Legnini, Ivano ^a   Di Timoteo, Gaia ^a   Rossi, Francesca ^a   Morlando, Mariangela ^a   Briganti, Francesca ^a   Sthandier, Olga ^a   Fatica, Alessandro ^a   Santini, Tiziana ^b   Andronache, Adrian ^b   Wade, Mark ^b   Laneve, Pietro ^b   Rajewsky, Nikolaus ^c   Bozzoni, Irene ^a,b,d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

cap independent; circRNA; circular RNA; DMD; muscle differentiation; myogenesis; non coding RNA; proliferation; translation

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR RNA ZNF609; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; CAPPED RNA; MUSCLE PROTEIN; RNA; RNA, CIRCULAR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYSOME; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; START CODON; STOP CODON; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HELA CELL LINE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MYOBLAST;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENOTYPE; HELA CELLS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; MYOBLASTS, SKELETAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA; RNA CAPS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 85016033036     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.02.017     Document Type: Article

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