Promoter-Bound Full-Length Intronic Circular RNAs-RNA Polymerase II Complexes Regulate Gene Expression in the Human Parasite Entamoeba histolytica
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results
2.1. CLIP Assays Reveal flicRNAs-RNA Polymerase II Interactions
2.2. flicRNAs Modify Gene Expression
2.3. ChIP Identifies Promoter-Associated flicRNA-Pol II Complexes
3. Discussion
4. Materials and Methods
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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García-Lerena, J.A.; González-Blanco, G.; Saucedo-Cárdenas, O.; Valdés, J. Promoter-Bound Full-Length Intronic Circular RNAs-RNA Polymerase II Complexes Regulate Gene Expression in the Human Parasite Entamoeba histolytica. Non-Coding RNA 2022, 8, 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/ncrna8010012
García-Lerena JA, González-Blanco G, Saucedo-Cárdenas O, Valdés J. Promoter-Bound Full-Length Intronic Circular RNAs-RNA Polymerase II Complexes Regulate Gene Expression in the Human Parasite Entamoeba histolytica. Non-Coding RNA. 2022; 8(1):12. https://doi.org/10.3390/ncrna8010012
Chicago/Turabian StyleGarcía-Lerena, Jesús Alberto, Gretter González-Blanco, Odila Saucedo-Cárdenas, and Jesús Valdés. 2022. "Promoter-Bound Full-Length Intronic Circular RNAs-RNA Polymerase II Complexes Regulate Gene Expression in the Human Parasite Entamoeba histolytica" Non-Coding RNA 8, no. 1: 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/ncrna8010012