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Design and Functional Validation of a Mutant Variant of the LncRNA HOTAIR to Counteract Snail Function in Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition.
Cancer research - 1 Jan 2021
Battistelli Cecilia, Garbo Sabrina, Riccioni Veronica, Montaldo Claudia, Santangelo Laura, Vandelli Andrea, Strippoli Raffaele, Tartaglia Gian Gaetano, Tripodi Marco, Cicchini Carla
Abstract excerpt
HOTAIR is a lncRNA overexpressed in several epithelial cancers and strongly correlated with invasion. This lncRNA was proven a pivotal element of the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), a transdifferentiation process triggering metastasis. Snail, master inducer of EMT, requires HOTAIR to recruit EZH2 on specific epithelial target genes (i.e., HNF4α, E-cadherin, and HNF1α) and cause their repression. Here,...
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