Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

The circular RNA circBIRC6 participates in the molecular circuitry controlling human pluripotency

  • Chun-Ying Yu,
  • Tung-Cheng Li,
  • Yi-Ying Wu,
  • Chan-Hsien Yeh,
  • Wei Chiang,
  • Ching-Yu Chuang,
  • Hung-Chih Kuo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01216-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Circular RNAs are abundant in the transcriptome and are implicated in the regulation of a range of biological processes. Here the authors identify circBIRC6 as a microRNA sponge that helps modulate human pluripotency and early lineage differentiation.