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  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,737 Views
21 Pages

Expanding the Potential of Circular RNA (CircRNA) Vaccines: A Promising Therapeutic Approach

  • Tian Bu,
  • Ziyu Yang,
  • Jian Zhao,
  • Yanmei Gao,
  • Faxiang Li and
  • Rong Yang

In recent years, circular RNAs (circRNAs) have garnered significant attention due to their unique structure and function, positioning them as promising candidates for next-generation vaccines. The circRNA vaccine, as an RNA vaccine, offers significan...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,105 Views
32 Pages

Harnessing the Loop: The Perspective of Circular RNA in Modern Therapeutics

  • Yang-Yang Zhao,
  • Fu-Ming Zhu,
  • Yong-Juan Zhang and
  • Huanhuan Y. Wei

31 July 2025

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) have emerged as a transformative class of RNA therapeutics, distinguished by their closed-loop structure conferring nuclease resistance, reduced immunogenicity, and sustained translational activity. While challenges in pharma...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,214 Views
20 Pages

Functional Involvement of circRNAs in the Innate Immune Responses to Viral Infection

  • Mohamed Maarouf,
  • Lulu Wang,
  • Yiming Wang,
  • Kul Raj Rai,
  • Yuhai Chen,
  • Min Fang and
  • Ji-Long Chen

5 August 2023

Effective viral clearance requires fine-tuned immune responses to minimize undesirable inflammatory responses. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a class of non-coding RNAs that are abundant and highly stable, formed by backsplicing pre-mRNAs, and expresse...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,555 Views
28 Pages

Rational Design and Immunological Mechanisms of Circular RNA-Based Vaccines: Emerging Frontiers in Combating Pathogen Infection

  • Ying Zhang,
  • Shumei Jin,
  • Zan Zuo,
  • Shujing Liu,
  • Juan Xu,
  • Chongyi Yang,
  • Ping Wan,
  • Linting Xun,
  • Mei Luo and
  • Jialong Qi
  • + 3 authors

Vaccines remain one of the most effective tools in combating infectious diseases, though traditional platforms are constrained by limitations including suboptimal immunogenicity, safety concerns, and manufacturing complexity. Circular RNA (circRNA) v...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,995 Views
15 Pages

20 September 2024

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a novel class of noncoding RNAs that have emerged as pivotal players in gene regulation. Our understanding of circRNAs has greatly expanded over the last decade, with studies elucidating their biology and exploring their...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,090 Views
15 Pages

Study on the Characterization and Degradation Pattern of Circular RNA Vaccines Using an HPLC Method

  • Feiran Cheng,
  • Ji Li,
  • Chaoying Hu,
  • Yu Bai,
  • Jianyang Liu,
  • Dong Liu,
  • Qian He,
  • Qiuheng Jin,
  • Qunying Mao and
  • Miao Xu
  • + 1 author

Circular RNA (circRNA) vaccines have attracted increasing attention due to their stable closed-loop structures and persistent protein expression ability. During the synthesis process, nicked circRNAs with similar molecular weights to those of circRNA...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,849 Views
20 Pages

Advances in Engineering Circular RNA Vaccines

  • Zhongyan Zhang,
  • Yuanlei Fu,
  • Xiaoli Ju,
  • Furong Zhang,
  • Peng Zhang and
  • Meilin He

15 August 2024

Engineered circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a class of single-stranded RNAs with head-to-tail covalently linked structures that integrate open reading frames (ORFs) and internal ribosome entry sites (IRESs) with the function of coding and expressing prot...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,465 Views
28 Pages

Circular RNAs as Targets for Developing Anticancer Therapeutics

  • Jaewhoon Jeoung,
  • Wonho Kim,
  • Hyein Jo and
  • Dooil Jeoung

18 July 2025

Circular RNA (CircRNA) is a single-stranded RNA arising from back splicing. CircRNAs interact with mRNA, miRNA, and proteins. These interactions regulate various life processes, including transcription, translation, cancer progression, anticancer dru...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,405 Views
16 Pages

Universal Flu mRNA Vaccine: Promises, Prospects, and Problems

  • Andrei A. Deviatkin,
  • Ruslan A. Simonov,
  • Kseniya A. Trutneva,
  • Anna A. Maznina,
  • Elena M. Khavina and
  • Pavel Y. Volchkov

30 April 2022

The seasonal flu vaccine is, essentially, the only known way to prevent influenza epidemics. However, this approach has limited efficacy due to the high diversity of influenza viruses. Several techniques could potentially overcome this obstacle. A re...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,272 Views
12 Pages

Cap-Independent Circular mRNA Translation Efficiency

  • Andrei A. Deviatkin,
  • Ruslan A. Simonov,
  • Kseniya A. Trutneva,
  • Anna A. Maznina,
  • Anastasiia B. Soroka,
  • Anna A. Kogan,
  • Sofya G. Feoktistova,
  • Elena M. Khavina,
  • Olga N. Mityaeva and
  • Pavel Y. Volchkov

20 January 2023

Recently, the mRNA platform has become the method of choice in vaccine development to find new ways to fight infectious diseases. However, this approach has shortcomings, namely that mRNA vaccines require special storage conditions, which makes them...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,878 Views
19 Pages

9 December 2024

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a class of noncoding RNAs that lack the 5′-cap structure and the 3′ poly(A) tail. Their distinguishing feature is that the 3′ and 5′ ends are covalently linked to form a closed circular structure....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,012 Views
15 Pages

A Simple and Efficient One-Step Synthesis System for Flexible Production of Circular RNA in E. coli

  • Xiayang Zhao,
  • Yiqing Liu,
  • Huanhui Huang,
  • Yue Sun,
  • Fangli Wu and
  • Weibo Jin

7 November 2024

Circular RNA (circRNA) exhibits a higher stability and intracellular half-life than linear RNA and has better potential in the fields of RNA vaccines and RNAi drugs. The current strategies for circRNA preparation have low efficiency, high costs, and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
47 Citations
9,095 Views
19 Pages

Vaccines’ New Era-RNA Vaccine

  • Wenshuo Zhou,
  • Linglei Jiang,
  • Shimiao Liao,
  • Feifei Wu,
  • Guohuan Yang,
  • Li Hou,
  • Lan Liu,
  • Xinping Pan,
  • William Jia and
  • Yuntao Zhang

18 August 2023

RNA vaccines, including conventional messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, circular RNA (circRNA) vaccines, and self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) vaccines, have ushered in a promising future and revolutionized vaccine development. The success of mRNA vaccines in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
871 Views
22 Pages

27 September 2025

Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) causes significant economic losses in the swine industry. Circular RNAs (circRNAs), a class of stable non-coding RNAs, are increasingly recognized as regulators in immune responses and host–v...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,869 Views
26 Pages

Unveiling Pharmacogenomics Insights into Circular RNAs: Toward Precision Medicine in Cancer Therapy

  • Saud Alqahtani,
  • Taha Alqahtani,
  • Krishnaraju Venkatesan,
  • Durgaramani Sivadasan,
  • Rehab Ahmed,
  • Hassabelrasoul Elfadil,
  • Premalatha Paulsamy and
  • Kalaiselvi Periannan

5 April 2025

Pharmacogenomics is revolutionizing precision medicine by enabling tailored therapeutic strategies based on an individual genetic and molecular profile. Circular RNAs (circRNAs), a distinct subclass of endogenous non-coding RNAs, have recently emerge...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,311 Views
21 Pages

Muscle Regeneration and RNA: New Perspectives for Ancient Molecules

  • Giulia Buonaiuto,
  • Fabio Desideri,
  • Valeria Taliani and
  • Monica Ballarino

23 September 2021

The ability of the ribonucleic acid (RNA) to self-replicate, combined with a unique cocktail of chemical properties, suggested the existence of an RNA world at the origin of life. Nowadays, this hypothesis is supported by innovative high-throughput a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,209 Views
26 Pages

Cancer remains a major cause of mortality worldwide, driven by complex molecular mechanisms that promote metastasis and resistance to therapy. Receptor for hyaluronan-mediated motility (RHAMM) has emerged as a multifunctional regulator in cancer, con...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,416 Views
19 Pages

Epigenetic Biomarkers for Cervical Cancer Progression: A Scoping Review

  • Efthymios Ladoukakis,
  • Gracia Andriamiadana,
  • Fatema Hajizadah,
  • Lewis G. E. James and
  • Belinda Nedjai

26 September 2025

Cervical cancer remains the fourth most common cancer among women globally, disproportionately impacting low- and middle-income countries despite the existence of HPV vaccines. While DNA methylation has been studied extensively as a biomarker, other...