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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,335 Views
17 Pages

Unveiling the circRNA-Mediated Immune Responses of Western Honey Bee Larvae to Ascosphaera apis Invasion

  • Yaping Ye,
  • Xiaoxue Fan,
  • Zongbing Cai,
  • Ying Wu,
  • Wende Zhang,
  • Haodong Zhao,
  • Sijia Guo,
  • Peilin Feng,
  • Qiming Li and
  • Rui Guo
  • + 4 authors

29 December 2022

Western honey bee (Apis mellifera), a eusocial insect with a superior economic and ecological value, is widely used in the beekeeping industry throughout the world. As a new class of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), circular RNAs (circRNAs) participate in t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,651 Views
19 Pages

The Potential Biological Roles of Circular RNAs in the Immune Systems of Insects to Pathogen Invasion

  • Muhammad Nadeem Abbas,
  • Saima Kausar,
  • Isma Gul,
  • Jisheng Li,
  • Huijuan Yu,
  • Mengyao Dong and
  • Hongjuan Cui

12 April 2023

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a newly discovered class of endogenously expressed non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). They are highly stable, covalently closed molecules that frequently exhibit tissue-specific expression in eukaryotes. A small number of circRNAs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,133 Views
27 Pages

The Involvement of LvSRSF2 in Circular RNA Biogenesis and Its Role in Immunity Against White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) in Litopenaeus vannamei

  • Wutthipat Potiyanadech,
  • Cheeranan Sriphuttha,
  • Tuangrak Seabkongseng,
  • Neung Teaumroong,
  • Panlada Tittabutr and
  • Pakpoom Boonchuen

Serine/arginine splicing factors (SRSFs) are critical regulators of gene expression that influence alternative splicing through RNA binding via the RNA recognition motif (RRM). Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a subset of non-coding RNAs that exhibit dif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,636 Views
20 Pages

Megalocytivirus is an important viral pathogen to many farmed fishes, including Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus). In this study, we examined megalocytivirus-induced RNA responses in the spleen of flounder by high-throughput sequencing and i...

  • 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,832 Views
12 Pages

Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) caused by Coxsackievirus Group B5 (CVB5) is one of the most common herpetic diseases in human infants and children. The pathogenesis of CVB5 remains unknown. Circular RNAs (CircRNAs), as novel noncoding RNAs, have...

  • 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
41 Citations
6,004 Views
23 Pages

Host Non-Coding RNA Regulates Influenza A Virus Replication

  • Yuejiao Liao,
  • Shouqing Guo,
  • Geng Liu,
  • Zhenyu Qiu,
  • Jiamin Wang,
  • Di Yang,
  • Xiaojing Tian,
  • Ziling Qiao,
  • Zhongren Ma and
  • Zhenbin Liu

29 December 2021

Outbreaks of influenza, caused by the influenza A virus (IAV), occur almost every year in various regions worldwide, seriously endangering human health. Studies have shown that host non-coding RNA is an important regulator of host–virus interac...

  • 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
6,775 Views
12 Pages

Transcriptome-Wide Identification and Characterization of Potato Circular RNAs in Response to Pectobacterium carotovorum Subspecies brasiliense Infection

  • Ran Zhou,
  • Yongxing Zhu,
  • Jiao Zhao,
  • Zhengwu Fang,
  • Shuping Wang,
  • Junliang Yin,
  • Zhaohui Chu and
  • Dongfang Ma

Little information about the roles of circular RNAs (circRNAs) during potato-Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. brasiliense (Pcb) interaction is currently available. In this study, we conducted the systematic identification of circRNAs from time serie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,557 Views
17 Pages

Construction of Immune-Related circRNA-miRNA-mRNA Network and Identification of circRNAs as Biomarkers in Coronary Atherosclerotic Heart Disease

  • Haiyan Qian,
  • Yudan Chen,
  • Jiali Chai,
  • Keai Cheng,
  • Xiya Zhao,
  • Shuai Zhi,
  • Yanqing Xie and
  • Lina Zhang

13 November 2024

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) play crucial roles in the immune and inflammatory responses of many diseases by acting as competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs). However, the role of circRNAs as ceRNAs in the immune and inflammatory processes of coronary athero...

  • 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
6 Citations
3,100 Views
13 Pages

Emerging Roles of Circular RNA in Macrophage Activation and Inflammatory Lung Responses

  • Chang Jun Son,
  • Jonathan M. Carnino,
  • Heedoo Lee and
  • Yang Jin

23 August 2024

Circular RNA (circRNA) is a type of single-stranded RNA that forms a covalently closed continuous loop, unlike linear RNA. The expression of circRNAs in mammals is often conserved across species and shows tissue and cell specificity. Some circRNA ser...

  • Article
  • Open Access
355 Views
14 Pages

Multiple Transcriptome Analyses Reveal the Selected lncRNA-mRNA and circRNA-mRNA Networks in HepG2 Cells Expressing Genotype 4 Swine Hepatitis E Virus ORF3

  • Hanwei Jiao,
  • Chi Meng,
  • Lingjie Wang,
  • Shengping Wu,
  • Gengxu Zhou,
  • Yubo Qi,
  • Jianhua Guo,
  • Yu Zhao,
  • Zuoyong Zhou and
  • Jake Wen
  • + 1 author

2 December 2025

(1) Background: Swine hepatitis E (SHE) is a novel zoonotic disease caused by the swine hepatitis E virus. Open Reading Frame 3 (ORF3) is an important virulence protein of swine hepatitis E virus, which promotes the survival and replication of the vi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,762 Views
19 Pages

Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines Promote the Transcription of Circular RNAs in Human Pancreatic β Cells

  • Simranjeet Kaur,
  • Caroline Frørup,
  • Aashiq H. Mirza,
  • Tina Fløyel,
  • Reza Yarani,
  • Maikel L. Colli,
  • Jesper Johannesen,
  • Joachim Størling,
  • Decio L. Eizirik and
  • Flemming Pociot

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) have recently been implicated in impaired β-cell function in diabetes. Using microarray-based profiling of circRNAs in human EndoC-βH1 cells treated with pro-inflammatory cytokines, this study aimed to investigate t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,297 Views
29 Pages

Roles and Applications of Circular RNA in Virus Infection

  • Fang Gou,
  • Yanmei Gao,
  • Keke Zhong,
  • Tian Bu,
  • Yinggang Li,
  • Faxiang Li and
  • Rong Yang

3 October 2025

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are novel types of covalently closed single-stranded RNA formed by the backsplicing of precursor mRNAs (pre-mRNAs). Recently, circRNAs have been shown to play a crucial role in various diseases, including cancers, cardiovascu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,204 Views
17 Pages

Identification and Characterization of Circular RNAs in Mammary Tissue from Holstein Cows at Early Lactation and Non-Lactation

  • Yan Liang,
  • Qisong Gao,
  • Haiyang Wang,
  • Mengling Guo,
  • Abdelaziz Adam Idriss Arbab,
  • Mudasir Nazar,
  • Mingxun Li,
  • Zhangping Yang,
  • Niel A. Karrow and
  • Yongjiang Mao

21 March 2022

In this study, circular RNAs (circRNAs) from Holstein cow mammary tissues were identified and compared between early lactation and non-lactation. After analysis, 10,684 circRNAs were identified, ranging from 48 to 99,406 bp, and the average size was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,293 Views
9 Pages

RNA Sequencing Reveals circRNA Expression Profiles in Chicken DF1 Cells Infected with H5N1 Influenza Virus

  • Li Chen,
  • Guoqin Li,
  • Yong Tian,
  • Tao Zeng,
  • Wenwu Xu,
  • Tiantian Gu and
  • Lizhi Lu

10 January 2022

H5N1, a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus that is prevalent in Asia, seriously harms the poultry industry and global public health. However, its pathogenesis is still not well understood. Circular RNAs (circRNAs), a newly identified type of RNA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,357 Views
16 Pages

31 October 2022

Background: Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a novel class of epigenetic regulators that participate in leukemogenesis. However, their roles in leukemia relapse after transplantation remain unclear. Methods: We defined the circRNAs profile of the bone-ma...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,925 Views
19 Pages

CircRNA Regulation of T Cells in Cancer: Unraveling Potential Targets

  • Zelin Li,
  • Shuanshuan Yin,
  • Kangping Yang,
  • Baojie Zhang,
  • Xuanhuang Wu,
  • Meng Zhang and
  • Dian Gao

T lymphocytes play a critical role in antitumor immunity, but their exhaustion poses a significant challenge for immune evasion by malignant cells. Circular RNAs (circRNAs), characterized by their covalently closed looped structure, have emerged as p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,755 Views
14 Pages

Non-Coding Transcriptome Provides Novel Insights into the Escherichia coli F17 Susceptibility of Sheep Lamb

  • Weihao Chen,
  • Xiaoyang Lv,
  • Weibo Zhang,
  • Tingyan Hu,
  • Xiukai Cao,
  • Ziming Ren,
  • Tesfaye Getachew,
  • Joram M. Mwacharo,
  • Aynalem Haile and
  • Wei Sun

22 February 2022

It has long been recognized that enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is the major pathogen responsible for vomiting and diarrhea. E. coli F17, a main subtype of ETEC, is characterized by high morbidity and mortality in young livestock. However, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,885 Views
11 Pages

15 January 2021

Circular RNA (circRNA) is a new class of non-coding RNA that is structured into a closed loop without polyadenylation. Recent studies showed that circRNAs are involved in the host immune response to pathogen infection. Japanese flounder (Paralichthys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,246 Views
16 Pages

Genome-Wide Identification and Characterization of Circular RNAs during Skeletal Muscle Development in Meat Rabbits

  • Kun Du,
  • Xiaoyu Zhao,
  • Yanhong Li,
  • Zhoulin Wu,
  • Wenqiang Sun,
  • Jie Wang,
  • Xianbo Jia,
  • Shiyi Chen and
  • Songjia Lai

27 August 2022

Skeletal muscle development plays a vital role in muscle quality and yield in meat rabbits. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a new type of single-stranded endogenous non-coding RNAs involved in different biological processes. However, our knowledge of ci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,873 Views
17 Pages

Rabies virus (RABV) induces acute, fatal encephalitis in mammals including humans. The circRNAs are important in virus infection process, but whether circRNAs regulated RABV infection remains largely unknown. Here, mice brain with or without the RABV...

  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
10,157 Views
28 Pages

Functions of Circular RNA in Human Diseases and Illnesses

  • Alison Gu,
  • Dabbu Kumar Jaijyan,
  • Shaomin Yang,
  • Mulan Zeng,
  • Shaokai Pei and
  • Hua Zhu

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) represent single-stranded RNA species that contain covalently closed 3′ and 5′ ends that provide them more stability than linear RNA, which has free ends. Emerging evidence indicates that circRNAs perform essentia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
971 Views
17 Pages

19 May 2025

Rumen acidosis is a widespread digestive disorder in livestock, causing inflammation and lowering animal performance. Unraveling its molecular mechanisms is vital for improving cattle health and welfare. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are noncoding RNAs fu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,803 Views
17 Pages

Microglia are resident innate immune cells that play an essential role in the development and surveillance of the central nervous system as well as the shared pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases. Microglia rapidly respond to multiple inflammat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
5,383 Views
19 Pages

The Emerging Regulatory Role of Circular RNAs in Periodontal Tissues and Cells

  • Kexin Jiao,
  • Laurence J. Walsh,
  • Sašo Ivanovski and
  • Pingping Han

Periodontitis is a chronic complex inflammatory disease associated with a destructive host immune response to microbial dysbiosis, leading to irreversible loss of tooth-supporting tissues. Regeneration of functional periodontal soft (periodontal liga...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,298 Views
30 Pages

Understanding Circular RNAs in Health, Welfare, and Productive Traits of Cattle, Goats, and Sheep

  • Dimitra Kirgiafini,
  • Maria-Anna Kyrgiafini,
  • Theocharis Gournaris and
  • Zissis Mamuris

27 February 2024

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are unique noncoding RNA molecules, notable for their covalent closed-loop structures, which play a crucial role in regulating gene expression across a variety of biological processes. This review comprehensively synthesizes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,949 Views
12 Pages

The circRNA Landscape in Recurrent Pregnacy Loss (RPL): A Comparison of Four Reproductive Tissues

  • Endika Varela-Martínez,
  • Olaia Colau,
  • Renate G. van der Molen and
  • Begoña M. Jugo

25 November 2024

Recurrent Pregnancy Loss (RPL), also named Recurrent Spontaneous Abortion (RSA), is a common fertility problem that refers to at least two consecutive pregnancy losses and affects 1–2% of couples all over the world. Despite common causes such a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,048 Views
26 Pages

Deciphering the CircRNA-Regulated Response of Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Workers to Microsporidian Invasion

  • Huazhi Chen,
  • Xiaoxue Fan,
  • Wende Zhang,
  • Yaping Ye,
  • Zongbing Cai,
  • Kaiyao Zhang,
  • Kuihao Zhang,
  • Zhongmin Fu,
  • Dafu Chen and
  • Rui Guo

29 August 2022

Vairimorpha ceranae is a widespread fungal parasite of adult honey bees that leads to a serious disease called nosemosis. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are newly discovered non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) that regulate biological processes such as immune defense...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,119 Views
17 Pages

Current Insights into the Roles of LncRNAs and CircRNAs in Pulpitis: A Narrative Review

  • Dulce Martha Fuchen-Ramos,
  • Ana Gabriela Leija-Montoya,
  • Javier González-Ramírez,
  • Mario Isiordia-Espinoza,
  • Fernando García-Arévalo,
  • Viviana Pitones-Rubio,
  • Carlos Olvera-Sandoval,
  • Isis Mateos-Corral and
  • Nicolás Serafín-Higuera

19 December 2024

Pulpitis, an inflammation of the dental pulp, is generated by bacterial invasion through different ways as caries. In the establishment and development of this disease, different biological processes are involved. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
5,550 Views
16 Pages

Deep Circular RNA Sequencing Provides Insights into the Mechanism Underlying Grass Carp Reovirus Infection

  • Libo He,
  • Aidi Zhang,
  • Lv Xiong,
  • Yongming Li,
  • Rong Huang,
  • Lanjie Liao,
  • Zuoyan Zhu and
  • And Yaping Wang

14 September 2017

Grass carp hemorrhagic disease, caused by the grass carp reovirus (GCRV), is a major disease that hampers the development of grass carp aquaculture in China. The mechanism underlying GCRV infection is still largely unknown. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) a...

  • 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,511 Views
18 Pages

Association of Circular RNA and Long Non-Coding RNA Dysregulation with the Clinical Response to Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Cutaneous Metastatic Melanoma

  • Javier Oliver,
  • Juan Luis Onieva,
  • Maria Garrido-Barros,
  • Miguel-Ángel Berciano-Guerrero,
  • Alfonso Sánchez-Muñoz,
  • María José Lozano,
  • Angela Farngren,
  • Martina Álvarez,
  • Beatriz Martínez-Gálvez and
  • Isabel Barragán
  • + 4 authors

27 September 2022

Cutaneous melanoma (CM) is the most lethal form of skin cancer if it becomes metastatic, where treatment options and survival chances decrease dramatically. Immunotherapy treatments based on the immunologic checkpoint inhibitors programmed death cell...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,250 Views
16 Pages

23 November 2023

Biotic stress tolerance in plants is complex as it relies solely on specific innate immune responses from different plant species combating diverse pathogens. Each component of the plant immune system is crucial to comprehend the molecular basis unde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,871 Views
24 Pages

Circular Nucleic Acids Act as an Oncogenic MicroRNA Sponge to Inhibit Hepatocellular Carcinoma Progression

  • Qianyi Zhang,
  • Pengcheng Sun,
  • Guang Hu,
  • Xuanyao Yu,
  • Wen Zhang,
  • Xuan Feng,
  • Lan Yu and
  • Pengfei Zhang

Background: Aberrant expression of microRNAs in neoplastic lesions may serve as potential personalized therapeutic targets. To inhibit oncogenic microRNAs (oncomiRs) expression and restore tumor suppressor proteins, linear miRNA sponges have been dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,704 Views
15 Pages

Profile of TREM2-Derived circRNA and mRNA Variants in the Entorhinal Cortex of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients

  • Amaya Urdánoz-Casado,
  • Javier Sánchez-Ruiz de Gordoa,
  • Maitane Robles,
  • Miren Roldan,
  • María Victoria Zelaya,
  • Idoia Blanco-Luquin and
  • Maite Mendioroz

Genetic variants in TREM2, a microglia-related gene, are well-known risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Here, we report that TREM2 originates from circular RNAs (circRNAs), a novel class of non-coding RNAs characterized by a covalent and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,926 Views
16 Pages

CircDCLRE1C Regulated Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Inflammatory Response and Apoptosis by Regulating miR-214b-3p/STAT3 Pathway in Macrophages

  • Yibin Xu,
  • Yulin Huang,
  • Siyu Zhang,
  • Lijin Guo,
  • Ruiquan Wu,
  • Xiang Fang,
  • Xiaolan Chen,
  • Haiping Xu and
  • Qinghua Nie

The immune cell inflammation response is closely related to the occurrence of disease, and much evidence has shown that circular RNAs (circRNAs) play vital roles in the occurrence of disease. However, the biological function and regulatory mechanisms...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,026 Views
18 Pages

6 July 2021

Increasing evidence suggests that non-coding RNAs (ncRNA) play an important role in a variety of biological life processes by regulating gene expression at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. Turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) has been th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,612 Views
19 Pages

Circular RNA ZNF277 Sponges miR-378d to Inhibit the Intracellular Survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Upregulating Rab10

  • Yifan Zhu,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Zijian Wang,
  • Ting Li,
  • Yingyu Chen,
  • Lu Lu,
  • Han Liu,
  • Delai Kong,
  • Yongchong Peng and
  • Aizhen Guo
  • + 3 authors

12 February 2025

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are covalently closed non-coding RNAs formed by back-splicing, lacking a 5′ cap and poly-A tail. They could act as important regulatory factors in the host’s anti-tuberculosis immune process, but only a few have b...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,494 Views
24 Pages

Long Non-Coding RNAs as Epigenetic Regulators of Immune Checkpoints in Cancer Immunity

  • Wiam Saadi,
  • Ahlam Fatmi,
  • Federico V. Pallardó,
  • José Luis García-Giménez and
  • Salvador Mena-Molla

28 December 2022

In recent years, cancer treatment has undergone significant changes, predominantly in the shift towards immunotherapeutic strategies using immune checkpoint inhibitors. Despite the clinical efficacy of many of these inhibitors, the overall response r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,843 Views
18 Pages

Non-Coding RNAs Regulate Spontaneous Abortion: A Global Network and System Perspective

  • Jianyu Gan,
  • Ting Gu,
  • Huaqiang Yang,
  • Zheng Ao,
  • Gengyuan Cai,
  • Linjun Hong and
  • Zhenfang Wu

Spontaneous abortion is a common pregnancy complication that negatively impacts women’s health and commercial pig production. It has been demonstrated that non-coding RNA (ncRNA) is involved in SA by affecting cell proliferation, invasion, apop...

  • 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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
796 Views
20 Pages

Integrative Roles of miRNAs and circRNAs in Plant Antiviral Gene Regulation and Autophagy

  • Nurgul Iksat,
  • Zhaksat Baikarayev,
  • Oleksiy Shevchenko,
  • Kuralay Zhanassova,
  • Assemgul Bekturova,
  • Sayan Zhangazin and
  • Zhaksylyk Masalimov

20 November 2025

Agriculture is still at serious risk from viral infections, particularly in light of climate change and more intensive farming practices. Small non-coding RNAs (sRNAs), in particular microRNAs (miRNAs) and circular RNAs (circRNAs), have emerged as cr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,919 Views
42 Pages

Insights into the Transcriptome of Human Cytomegalovirus: A Comprehensive Review

  • Janine Zeng,
  • Di Cao,
  • Shaomin Yang,
  • Dabbu Kumar Jaijyan,
  • Xiaolian Liu,
  • Songbin Wu,
  • Ruth Cruz-Cosme,
  • Qiyi Tang and
  • Hua Zhu

8 August 2023

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a widespread pathogen that poses significant risks to immunocompromised individuals. Its genome spans over 230 kbp and potentially encodes over 200 open-reading frames. The HCMV transcriptome consists of various types...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,233 Views
31 Pages

Non-Coding RNAs (microRNAs, lncRNAs, circRNAs) in Adenomyosis: A Systematic Review of Mechanistic and Translational Evidence

  • Rafał Watrowski,
  • Stoyan Kostov,
  • Mario Palumbo,
  • Andrea Rosati,
  • Radmila Sparić,
  • Ibrahim Alkatout,
  • Ingolf Juhasz-Böss,
  • Salvatore Giovanni Vitale and
  • Liliana Mereu

4 November 2025

Adenomyosis (AM) is a hormonally responsive uterine disorder defined by ectopic endometrial tissue within the myometrium, causing pain, abnormal bleeding, and subfertility. Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs)—including microRNAs (miRNAs), long non-coding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,364 Views
23 Pages

1 October 2024

Cryptocaryon irritans (C. irritans) is a proto-ciliate parasite that infects marine fishes, including the cultured species Takifugu rubripes (T. rubripes), causing disease and potential mortality. In host organisms, infection by parasites triggers an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,031 Views
26 Pages

31 August 2021

B-lymphocytes are essential for an efficient immune response against a variety of pathogens. A large fraction of hematologic malignancies are of B-cell origin, suggesting that the development and activation of B cells must be tightly regulated. In re...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,083 Views
22 Pages

15 March 2023

Macrophages are innate immune cells and often classified as M1 macrophages (pro-inflammatory states) and M2 macrophages (anti-inflammatory states). Exosomes are cell-derived nanovesicles that range in diameter from 30 to 150 nm. Non-coding RNAs (ncRN...

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