Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.
J Exp Med. 2020 Mar 2;217(3). doi: 10.1084/jem.20192009.
A new concept is emerging in the non-coding RNA (ncRNA) field: an increasing number of ncRNAs in fact codify for short peptides that have biological activities. In this issue of JEM, Wang et al. (https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20190950) report the identification of a long ncRNA (lncRNA)-encoded 60-amino acid polypeptide that they name ASRPS, as well as its ability to inhibit angiogenesis in the deadly triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).
非编码 RNA(ncRNA)领域出现了一个新概念:越来越多的 ncRNA 实际上编码具有生物活性的短肽。在本期《实验医学杂志》(JEM)中,Wang 等人(https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20190950)报道了一种长 ncRNA(lncRNA)编码的 60 个氨基酸多肽的鉴定,他们将其命名为 ASRPS,并发现它能够抑制致命的三阴性乳腺癌(TNBC)中的血管生成。