brain; heart; liver; lung; colon; stomach; primary hepatocellular carcinoma tissue; adjacent non-tumorous liver tissue; bladder urothelial carcinoma tissue; breast cancer tissue; colorectal cancer tissue; gastric cancer tissue; kidney clear cell carcinoma
HEK-293T; HeLa; HCT-116; Huh-7
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proliferation (promotes); ceRNA regulation (promotes)
RNA-seq; RT-qPCR; divergent primers PCR; RNase R Treatment; Sanger Sequencing; Actinomycin D / DRB Stability Assay; Nuclear-Cytoplasmic Fractionation; FISH / smFISH; Northern Blot; RIP (RNA Immunoprecipitation); Luciferase Reporter Assay; RNA Pull-Down; Transfection; CCK8; EdU Staining; Bioinformatics Analysis
circHIPK3 (from HIPK3 exon2) is up-regulated in liver cancer and promotes human cell growth/proliferation. Mechanistically, it acts as a miRNA sponge binding nine miRNAs (notably miR-124), suppressing miR-124 activity and influencing downstream targets such as IL6R and DLX2.
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Circular RNA profiling reveals an abundant circHIPK3 that regulates cell growth by sponging multiple miRNAs.
combined biological and clinical study