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ArticleMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2022

Long noncoding RNA LINC01234 promotes hepatocellular carcinoma progression through orchestrating aspartate metabolic reprogramming.

Muhua Chen, Chunfeng Zhang, Wei Liu, Xiaojuan Du, Xiaofeng Liu, Baocai Xing

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Article in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Muhua ChenKey Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery Department I, Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing 100142, China.
Chunfeng ZhangDepartment of Medical Genetics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China.
Wei LiuKey Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery Department I, Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing 100142, China.
Xiaojuan DuDepartment of Cell Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China.
Xiaofeng LiuKey Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery Department I, Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing 100142, China. Electronic address: liuxiaofeng100@bjmu.edu.cn.
Baocai XingKey Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery Department I, Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing 100142, China. Electronic address: xingbaocai88@sina.com.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amino acids metabolism, especially aspartate metabolism, is often altered in human cancers including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and this metabolic remodeling is required for supporting cancer cell malignant activities. Argininosuccinate synthase 1 (ASS1), as a crucial rate-limiting enzyme in aspartate metabolism, participates in repressing tumor progression. However, the roles of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in aspartate metabolism remodeling and the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we screen LINC01234 as an aspartate metabolism-related lncRNA in HCC. Clinically, LINC01234 was highly expressed in HCC, and a high LINC01234 expression level was correlated with a poor prognosis of patients with HCC. LINC01234 promoted cell proliferation, migration, and drug resistance by orchestrating aspartate metabolic reprogramming in HCC cells. Mechanistically, LINC01234 downregulated the expression of ASS1, leading to am increased aspartate level and activation of the mammalian target of rapamycin pathway. LINC01234 bound to the promoter of ASS1 and inhibited transcriptional activation of ASS1 by transcriptional factors, including p53. Finally, inhibiting LINC01234 dramatically impaired tumor growth in nude mice and sensitized HCC cells to sorafenib. These findings demonstrate that LINC01234 promotes HCC progression by modulating aspartate metabolic reprogramming and might be a prognostic or therapeutic target for HCC.

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Carcinoma, HepatocellularLiver NeoplasmsRNA, Long NoncodingAnimalsArgininosuccinate SynthaseAspartic AcidCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansMammalsMiceMice, NudeArgininosuccinate SynthaseAspartic AcidRNA, Long NoncodingASS1hepatocellular carcinomaLINC01234metabolic reprogrammingp53

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