Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

A KRAS-responsive long non-coding RNA controls microRNA processing

  • Lei Shi,
  • Peter Magee,
  • Matteo Fassan,
  • Sudhakar Sahoo,
  • Hui Sun Leong,
  • Dave Lee,
  • Robert Sellers,
  • Laura Brullé-Soumaré,
  • Stefano Cairo,
  • Tiziana Monteverde,
  • Stefano Volinia,
  • Duncan D. Smith,
  • Gianpiero Di Leva,
  • Francesca Galuppini,
  • Athanasios R. Paliouras,
  • Kang Zeng,
  • Raymond O’Keefe,
  • Michela Garofalo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22337-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Wild-type KRAS amplification is known to induce KRAS activation in cancer leading to poor prognostic outcomes. Here the authors identify a KRAS-responsive lncRNA, KIMAT1 that maintains KRAS signalling in lung cancer, suggesting that its targeting may prevent KRAS-driven tumourigenesis.