Many abundant long noncoding RNAs lack a canonical 5′ cap and/or a poly(A) tail.
MALAT1 is mis-regulated in many cancers and is processed by tRNA biogenesis factors.
The 3′ ends of the long MALAT1 and MEN β transcripts are protected by triple helices.
Sno-lncRNAs accumulate in the nucleus and have snoRNA structures at their ends.
Pre-mRNA splicing generates many circular noncoding RNAs from protein-coding genes.