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CELL REPORTS
卷 36, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109439
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- U.S. National Institutes of Health [R35GM139484]
Most circRNAs are found to be deleterious products of splicing errors, with only a small number being functional candidates. The production of circRNAs varies among different species, and overall, circRNAs lack evolutionary conservation.
Ubiquitous in eukaryotes, circular RNAs (circRNAs) comprise a large class of mostly non-coding RNAs produced by back-splicing. Although some circRNAs have demonstrated biochemical activities, whether most circRNAs are functional is unknown. Here, we test the hypothesis that circRNA production primarily results from splicing error and so is deleterious instead of beneficial. In support of the error hypothesis, our analysis of RNA sequencing data from 11 shared tissues of humans, macaques, and mice finds that (1) back-splicing is much rarer than linear-splicing, (2) the rate of back-splicing diminishes with the splicing amount, (3) the overall prevalence of back- splicing in a species declines with its effective population size, and (4) circRNAs are overall evolutionarily unconserved. We estimate that more than 97% of the observed circRNA production is deleterious. We identify a small number of functional circRNA candidates, and the genome-wide trend strongly suggests that circRNAs are largely non-functional products of splicing errors.
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