Fig. 3: Biogenesis and function of circRNA-miRNA network. | Cell Death Discovery

Fig. 3: Biogenesis and function of circRNA-miRNA network.

From: Regulatory mechanism of miR-20a-5p expression in Cancer

Fig. 3

circRNA is formed by pre-mrna through back-splicing. Generated circRNA usually has three functions: adsorbing miRNA as sponge, encoding and translating into short peptides, and binding functional proteins to regulate its intracellular functions.

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