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Towards higher-resolution and in vivo understanding of lncRNA biogenesis and function

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Recent studies have revealed multifaceted roles of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in gene regulation, accompanying an increased understanding of lncRNA processing, localization, interacting macromolecules and structural modules. Here, progress and recently developed technological advances for understanding lncRNA biogenesis, modes of action and cellular phenotypes are highlighted, and challenges and opportunities towards higher-resolution and in vivo studies in this field are discussed.

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Fig. 1: The complex life of lncRNA and lncRNP.

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The author is grateful to L. Yang at Fudan University and G. Carmichael at UConn Health for reading the paper. This work is supported by the CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research (YSBR-009), the Shanghai Municipal Commission for Science and Technology (20JC1410300), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31821004, 31830108, 31725009 and 91940303) and the HHMI International Program (55008728). L.-L.C. acknowledges support from the Xplorer Prize.

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