Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

c-Myc inactivation of p53 through the pan-cancer lncRNA MILIP drives cancer pathogenesis

  • Yu Chen Feng,
  • Xiao Ying Liu,
  • Liu Teng,
  • Qiang Ji,
  • Yongyan Wu,
  • Jin Ming Li,
  • Wei Gao,
  • Yuan Yuan Zhang,
  • Ting La,
  • Hessam Tabatabaee,
  • Xu Guang Yan,
  • M. Fairuz B. Jamaluddin,
  • Didi Zhang,
  • Su Tang Guo,
  • Rodney J. Scott,
  • Tao Liu,
  • Rick F. Thorne,
  • Xu Dong Zhang,
  • Lei Jin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18735-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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c-Myc and p53 operate in a negative feedback manner to maintain cellular homeostasis. Here, the authors report a long noncoding RNA, MILIP as a downstream target of c-Myc and that MILIP represses p53 to support tumorigenicity.