Although discovered decades ago, functions of circular RNAs (circRNAs) produced from exon(s) back-splicing of pre-mRNAs have only been unveiled recently. As circRNAs share overlapping sequences with their cognate linear RNAs, except for the back-splicing junction sites, it is difficult to distinguish circRNAs from cognate mRNAs in functional studies. In this chapter, we describe a programmable method for the large-scale functional circRNA screening based on the RNA-guided, RNA-targeting CRISPR-Cas13 (RfxCas13d) system. This method can be applied both in vivo and in cell to explore highly expressed circRNAs that may influence cell growth, either under natural conditions or in response to environmental stimulation, without disturbing cognate linear mRNAs.
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