The invention discloses a method for screening and identifying
ribosome entry sites in a short chain, which comprises the following steps of: (1) screening a short chain IRES sequence with the length of less than 100nt from an IRES
database, constructing a screening
library and synthesizing; (2) constructing a screening vector containing double reporter genes,
cloning the short-chain IRES into a linearized screening vector, and generating
circular RNA which only depends on the short-chain IRES sequence to recruit
ribosome expression of the reporter genes in cells by the screening vector cloned with the short-chain IRES sequence; and (3) carrying out
cell transfection on the screening vector cloned with the short-chain IRES sequence, screening out cells expressing reporter genes through
cell sorting, and sequencing through a
ribosome-newborn
peptide chain compound to obtain the short-chain IRES sequence capable of recruiting ribosome to start
circular RNA translation in the cells. According to the invention, a short-chain IRES sequence
library is constructed, and short IRES capable of starting
circular RNA translation is screened, so that
transfection limitation caused by overlarge molecular weight of the current IRES sequence is overcome.