Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

A peptide encoded by circular form of LINC-PINT suppresses oncogenic transcriptional elongation in glioblastoma

  • Maolei Zhang,
  • Kun Zhao,
  • Xiaoping Xu,
  • Yibing Yang,
  • Sheng Yan,
  • Ping Wei,
  • Hui Liu,
  • Jianbo Xu,
  • Feizhe Xiao,
  • Huangkai Zhou,
  • Xuesong Yang,
  • Nunu Huang,
  • Jinglei Liu,
  • Kejun He,
  • Keping Xie,
  • Gong Zhang,
  • Suyun Huang,
  • Nu Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06862-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Functional peptides can be encoded by short open reading frames in non-coding RNA. Here, the authors identify a 87aa peptide encoded by the circular form of the long intergenic non-protein-coding RNA p53-induced transcript (LINC-PINT) that can reduce glioblastoma proliferation via interaction with PAF1 which sequentially inhibits the transcriptional elongation of some oncogenes.