期刊
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
卷 11, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jcm11102909
关键词
circular RNAs (circRNAs); gene regulation; stem cells
资金
- Bureau of Xiangyang City Science and Technology projects [2020YL29]
- Project of Hubei University of Arts and Science [XK2020060]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province of China [2020CFB338]
- Science and Technology Innovation Team Project of Hubei University of Arts and Science [2021kptd01]
- Xiangyang Youth Science and Technology Talent Development Plan (2019)
- Undergraduate Training Programs for Innovation and Entrepreneurship [S202110519032]
- Jiangxi ShuanQian Team Project [S2019CXTD2090]
circRNAs, a novel type of endogenous RNAs, play important roles in cell differentiation, tissue homeostasis, and disease development. They have non-coding functions and are crucial in stem cell function. circRNAs show unique expression profiles and could serve as promising biomarkers in stem cell differentiation.
Circular RNAs (circRNAs), a novel type of endogenous RNAs, have become a subject of intensive research. It has been found that circRNAs are important players in cell differentiation and tissue homeostasis, as well as disease development. Moreover, the expression of circRNAs is usually not correlated with their parental gene expression, indicating that they are not only a steady-state by-product of mRNA splicing but a product of variable splicing under novel regulation. Sequence conservation analysis has also demonstrated that circRNAs have important non-coding functions. CircRNAs exist as a covalently closed loop form in mammalian cells, where they regulate cellular transcription and translation processes. CircRNAs are built from pre-messenger RNAs, and their biogenesis involves back-splicing, which is catalyzed by spliceosomes. The splicing reaction gives rise to three different types of intronic, exotic and exon-intron circular RNAs. Due to higher nuclease stability and longer half lives in cells, circRNAs are more stable than linear RNAs and have enormous clinical advantage for use as diagnostic and therapeutic biomarkers for disease. In recent years, it has been reported that circRNAs in stem cells play a crucial role in stem cell function. In this article, we reviewed the general feature of circRNAs and the distinct roles of circRNAs in stem cell biology, including regulation of stem cell self-renewal and differentiation. CircRNAs have shown unique expression profiles during differentiation of stem cells and could serve as promising biomarkers of these cells. As circRNAs play pivotal roles in stem cell regulation as well as the development and progression of various diseases, we also discuss opportunities and challenges of circRNA-based treatment strategies in future effective therapies for promising clinical applications.
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