The design and synthesis of circular RNAs

P Obi, YG Chen - Methods, 2021 - Elsevier
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a novel class of RNAs distinguished by their single-stranded,
covalently-closed topology. Although initially perceived as rare byproducts of aberrant …

Circular RNA vaccine in disease prevention and treatment

D Niu, Y Wu, J Lian - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2023 - nature.com
CircRNAs are a class of single-stranded RNAs with covalently linked head-to-tail topology.
In the decades since its initial discovery, their biogenesis, regulation, and function have …

Circular RNA: Biosynthesis in vitro

X Chen, Y Lu - Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Circular RNA (circRNA) is a unique type of noncoding RNA molecule. Compared with
traditional linear RNA, circRNA is a covalently closed circle produced by a process called …

Optimal design of synthetic circular RNAs

SW Choi, JW Nam - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Circular RNAs are an unusual class of single-stranded RNAs whose ends are covalently
linked via back-splicing. Due to their versatility, the need to express circular RNAs in vivo …

CircNFATC3 promotes the proliferation of gastric cancer through binding to IGF2BP3 and restricting its ubiquitination to enhance CCND1 mRNA stability

F Yang, Q Ma, B Huang, X Wang, X Pan, T Yu… - Journal of Translational …, 2023 - Springer
Background Insulin like growth factor II mRNA binding protein 3 (IGF2BP3) is an RNA
binding protein with multiple roles in regulation of gene expression at the post …

Application prospect of circular RNA-based neoantigen vaccine in tumor immunotherapy

M Li, Y Wang, P Wu, S Zhang, Z Gong, Q Liao, C Guo… - Cancer letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Neoantigen is a protein produced by mutant gene, which is only expressed in tumor cells. It
is an ideal target for therapeutic tumor vaccines. Although synthetic long peptide (SLP) …

mRNA vaccines in the prevention and treatment of diseases

Y Gu, J Duan, N Yang, Y Yang, X Zhao - MedComm, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines made their successful public debut in the
effort against the COVID‐19 outbreak starting in late 2019, although the history of mRNA …

Biological functions and applications of circRNAs—next generation of RNA-based therapy

M Sun, Y Yang - Journal of molecular cell biology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a unique class of single-stranded RNA molecules that are
covalently closed and lack 5 and 3 ends. They were first discovered in eukaryotic cells> 30 …

A cis-acting ligase ribozyme generates circular RNA in vitro for ectopic protein functioning

CI Su, ZS Chuang, CT Shie, HI Wang, YT Kao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Delivering synthetic protein-coding RNA bypassing the DNA stage for ectopic protein
functioning is a novel therapeutic strategy. Joining the linear RNA head-to-tail covalently …

Regulatory circular RNAs in viral diseases: applications in diagnosis and therapy

W Wang, L Sun, MT Huang, Y Quan, T Jiang, Z Miao… - RNA biology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Circular RNA (circRNA) forms closed loops via back-splicing in precursor mRNA, resisting
exonuclease degradation. In higher eukaryotes, protein-coding genes create circRNAs …