8. A Highly-efficient Strategy for Overexpressing circRNAs
Dawei Liu, Vanessa Conn, Gregory J. Goodall, and Simon J. Conn
9. Constructing GFP-based Reporter to study Back-splicing and Translation of Circular RNA
Yun Yang and Zefeng Wang
10. Northern Blot Analysis of Circular RNAs
Tim Schneider, Silke Schreiner, Christian Preußer, Albrecht Bindereif, and Oliver Rossbach
11. Non-radioactive Northern Blot of circRNAs
Xiaolin Wang and Ge Shan
12.Characterization of Circular RNA Concatemers
Thomas B Hansen
13. Characterization of Circular RNAs (circRNA) Associated with the Translation Machinery
Deniz Bartsch, Anne Zirkel, and Leo Kurian
14. Synthesis and Engineering of Circular RNAs
Sonja Petkovic and Sabine Müller
15. Preparation of Circular RNA in vitro
Naoko Abe, Ayumi Kodama and Hiroshi Abe
16. Discovering circRNA-microRNA Interactions from CLIP-Seq Data
Xiao-Qin Zhang and Jian-Hua Yang
17. Identification of circRNAs for miRNA Targets by Argonaute2 RNA Immunoprecipitation and Luciferase Screening Assays
Yan Li, Bing Chen, and Shenglin Huang
This volume provides established approaches for identifying, characterizing, and manipulating circRNAs in vitro, in vivo, and in silico. Chapters highlight the breakthroughs and the challenges in this new field of research. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.
Authoritative and practical, Circular RNAs: Methods and Protocols aims to useful and informative for further study into this vital field.