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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 11.
Published in final edited form as: AIMS Biophys. 2015 Dec 1;2(4):794–809. doi: 10.3934/biophy.2015.4.794

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Functional categories of lncRNAs. There are three broad functional classifications for lncRNAs. A. LncRNAs can act as decoys sequestering either proteins and/or regulatory RNAs, such as miRNAs, away from their targets or cellular locations. B. LncRNAs can also be key players in the recruitment of proteins, such chromatin-modifying enzymes, to specific genomic locations thereby influencing transcriptional events. C. LncRNAs can provide a platform or scaffold to facilitate different molecular interactions, such as protein-protein interactions.