The pull-down assay was performed as described in previous study.9 (link) In brief, 107 cells were washed with cold PBS, lysed in 500 μL co-IP buffer, and incubated with 3 μg biotinylated DNA oligo probes against endogenous or ectopically expressed circ-Foxo3, at room temperature for 2 h. A total of 50 μL washed Streptavidin C1 magnetic beads (Invitrogen) were added to each binding reaction for 1 h at room temperature. Then, the RNAs were purified using RNeasy Mini Kit (QIAGEN) for further qPCR analysis.