Volume 27, No 6, Jun 2017

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 27 Issue 6, June 2017: 724-725

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Circular RNAs: Coding or noncoding?

Tim Schneider¹ and Albrecht Bindereif¹

¹Institute of Biochemistry, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, D-35392 Giessen, Germany Correspondence: Albrecht Bindereif,(albrecht.bindereif@chemie.bio.uni-giessen.de)

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) were only recently discovered as a new class of noncoding RNAs, functionally still largely uncharacterized. Three publications that appeared concurrently in Cell Research and Molecular Cell provide initial evidence for certain endogenous circRNAs coding for proteins.

10.1038/cr.2017.70

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