Journal: Nature Communications
Article Title: The history and function of a circular RNA
doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-71822-0
Figure Lengend Snippet: A Schematic representation of the genomic locus of lncRNA Cyrano/OIP5-AS1. Exon 3 contains a single miR-7 perfect complementarity site (pink), which triggers miR-7 TDMD. Additionally, one of the several Cyrano conserved regions, a 300nt sequence (purple) flanking the miR-7 biding site emerged in vertebrates from Xenopus to Human, but is not present in zebrafish . B Evolutionary conservation of lncRNA Cyrano/OIP5-AS1. Phylogeny of several animal groups reflecting the expression of Cyrano/OIP5-AS1 from zebrafish to human. Conservation of 300nt sequence (purple) containing miR-7 biding site (red). C Relative RNA expression of lncRNA Cyrano/OIP5-AS1 across cells and tissues. Indicated is the relative expression of Cyrano across samples from high (purple) to low (gray) Left: brain region specific (cortex, hippocampus, hypothalamus, pituitary gland; Allen Brain Atlas). Middle: neuronal-type specific (inhibitory, excitatory, granular). D Normalized abundance of the Cyrano sequences across matched human and mouse organ systems (nervous, blood/immune, respiratory, digestive, urinary and skeletal). Expression was estimated from raw reads by counting exact k-mer matches to the probe sequences in each single-cell or spatial dataset (Rajewsky lab, unpublished sequence-search index). Values are scaled to the total number of informative k-mers per cell and sample. Expression units are species-normalized pseudocounts (scaled per 10⁶ k-mers per cell). Within the nervous system, the same approach resolves region- and cell-type–specific patterns for neuronal and glial subclasses of human and mouse . Datasets: Human Cell Atlas single-cell collections released up to 2024; Human Adult Brain Cell Atlas ; Mouse Brain Cell Atlas ; Tabula Muris (Tabula Muris Consortium 2018, 2020). Created in BioRender. https://BioRender.com/3it2qak .
Article Snippet: CDR1as is further embedded in a regulatory network with the lncRNA Cyrano.
Techniques: Sequencing, Expressing, RNA Expression, Single Cell