A Highly Conserved Circular RNA Is Required to Keep Neural Cells in a Progenitor State in the Mammalian Brain (Cell Reports)

Suenkel et al. present a detailed study of the highly conserved circular RNA (circRNA) circSLC45A4 in human neuroblastoma cells and mouse embryonic cortex. They use perturbation experiments and RNA-seq to demonstrate that circSLC45A4 is required to keep neural cells in a progenitor state.