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ArticleMolecular therapy. Nucleic acids2021

Engineering highly efficient backsplicing and translation of synthetic circRNAs.

Rita M Meganck, Jiacheng Liu, Andrew E Hale, Katherine E Simon, Marco M Fanous, Heather A Vincent, Jeremy E Wilusz, Nathaniel J Moorman, William F Marzluff, Aravind Asokan

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Article in Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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47citing papers in PubMed
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 77 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Circular RNAs: from transcriptional noise to engineered therapeutics.Frontiers in epigenetics and epigenomics · 2026
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  15. The therapeutic potential of circular RNAs.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2025
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  17. The Internal Ribosome Entry Site in Circular RNAs.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Rita M MeganckCurriculum in Genetics & Molecular Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Jiacheng LiuDepartment of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Andrew E HaleDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Katherine E SimonDepartment of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Marco M FanousDepartment of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Heather A VincentDepartment of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Jeremy E WiluszDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Nathaniel J MoormanDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
William F MarzluffIntegrated Program for Biological and Genome Sciences, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Aravind AsokanDepartment of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USDuke University · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Determinants of AAV TropismR01HL089221 · NHLBI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Aravind Asokan · 2009 to 2026
$8.1M
NRSA IN GENETICST32GM007092 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI SEKELSKY, JEFF J. · 1985 to 2019
$5.9M
The role of host and viral translation factors during HCMV infectionR01AI103311 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI MOORMAN, NATHANIEL J · 2013 to 2022
$3.9M
Evolving High Potency AAV Vectors for Neuromuscular Genome EditingUG3AR075336 · NIAMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI ASOKAN, ARAVIND · 2018 to 2020
$2.1M
RE-ENGINEERING AAV GENOME PACKAGINGR01GM127708 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ASOKAN, ARAVIND · 2018 to 2021
$2.0M
CircRNAs and CNS Gene TransferR01NS099371 · NINDS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ASOKAN, ARAVIND · 2017 to 2021
$1.9M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL089221NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI103311NIAMS NIH HHS UG3 AR075336NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM127708NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007092NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS099371
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are highly stable RNA molecules that are attractive templates for expression of therapeutic proteins and non-coding RNAs. In eukaryotes, circRNAs are primarily generated by the spliceosome through backsplicing. Here, we interrogate different molecular elements including intron type and length,

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