Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

The LINC01138 drives malignancies via activating arginine methyltransferase 5 in hepatocellular carcinoma

  • Zhe Li,
  • Jiwei Zhang,
  • Xinyang Liu,
  • Shengli Li,
  • Qifeng Wang,
  • Di Chen,
  • Zhixiang Hu,
  • Tao Yu,
  • Jie Ding,
  • Jinjun Li,
  • Ming Yao,
  • Jia Fan,
  • Shenglin Huang,
  • Qiang Gao,
  • Yingjun Zhao,
  • Xianghuo He

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04006-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Long intergenic non-coding RNAs have been linked to cancer development. Here the authors, using RNA-seq and genomic amplification data, identify lincRNAs deregulated in hepatocellular carcinoma and propose that Linc01138 is stabilized by IGF2BP1/3 in the cytoplasm, and binds and stabilizes the methyltransferase PRMT5 by preventing the association of PRMT5 to the E3 ubiquitin ligase CHIP.