isoCirc catalogs full-length circular RNA isoforms in human transcriptomes

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) have emerged as an important class of functional RNA molecules. Short-read RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is a widely used strategy to identify circRNAs. However, an inherent limitation of short-read RNA-seq is that it does not experimentally determine the full-length sequences and exact exonic compositions of circRNAs. Here, we report isoCirc, a strategy for sequencing full-length circRNA isoforms, using rolling circle amplification followed by nanopore long-read sequencing. We describe an integrated computational pipeline to reliably characterize full-length circRNA isoforms using isoCirc data. Using isoCirc, we generate a comprehensive catalog of 107,147 full-length circRNA isoforms across 12 human tissues and one human cell line (HEK293), including 40,628 isoforms ≥500 nt in length. We identify widespread alternative splicing events within the internal part of circRNAs, including 720 retained intron events corresponding to a class of exon-intron circRNAs (EIciRNAs). Collectively, isoCirc and the companion dataset provide a useful strategy and resource for studying circRNAs in human transcriptomes.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Nature communications - 12(2021), 1 vom: 12. Jan., Seite 266

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Xin, Ruijiao [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Yuan [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Kadash-Edmondson, Kathryn E [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Bo [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yadong [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Lan [VerfasserIn]
Xing, Yi [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
RNA, Circular
RNA Isoforms
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 21.01.2021

Date Revised 30.03.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41467-020-20459-8

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM31999967X