Best practice standards for circular RNA research

Anne F. Nielsen; Albrecht Bindereif; Irene Bozzoni; Mor Hanan; Thomas B. Hansen; Manuel Irimia; Sebastian Kadener; Lasse S. Kristensen; Ivano Legnini; Mariangela Morlando; Morten T. Jarlstad Olesen; R. Jeroen Pasterkamp; Stephan Preibisch; Nikolaus Rajewsky; Christin Suenkel; Jørgen Kjems

doi:10.1038/s41592-022-01487-2

Best practice standards for circular RNA research

Anne F. Nielsen, Albrecht Bindereif, Irene Bozzoni, Mor Hanan, Thomas B. Hansen, Manuel Irimia, Sebastian Kadener, Lasse S. Kristensen, Ivano Legnini, Mariangela Morlando, Morten T. Jarlstad Olesen, R. Jeroen Pasterkamp, Stephan Preibisch, Nikolaus Rajewsky, Christin Suenkel, Jørgen Kjems^*

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Abstract

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are formed in all domains of life and via different mechanisms. There has been an explosion in the number of circRNA papers in recent years; however, as a relatively young field, circRNA biology has an urgent need for common experimental standards for isolating, analyzing, expressing and depleting circRNAs. Here we propose a set of guidelines for circRNA studies based on the authors’ experience. This Perspective will specifically address the major class of circRNAs in Eukarya that are generated by a spliceosome-catalyzed back-splicing event. We hope that the implementation of best practice principles for circRNA research will help move the field forward and allow a better functional understanding of this fascinating group of RNAs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1208-1220
Number of pages	13
Journal	Nature Methods
Volume	19
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-022-01487-2
Publication status	Published - Oct 2022

Keywords

RNA Splicing
RNA, Circular
RNA/genetics

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Nielsen, A. F., Bindereif, A., Bozzoni, I., Hanan, M., Hansen, T. B., Irimia, M., Kadener, S., Kristensen, L. S., Legnini, I., Morlando, M., Jarlstad Olesen, M. T., Pasterkamp, R. J., Preibisch, S., Rajewsky, N., Suenkel, C., & Kjems, J. (2022). Best practice standards for circular RNA research. Nature Methods, 19(10), 1208-1220. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-022-01487-2

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