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At the contrary, increased NPC1 expression has been associated with enhanced migration and proliferation in hepatocellular carcinoma by activating autophagy (Xu et al., 2024)
doi: 10.18053/jctres.03.2017S1.004
Revealing proteinlncRNA interaction
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Meanwhile, the expression of iron metabolism-associated genes, including TRFC, FTH1, and FTL, can be modulated by the epigenetic silencing of the iron-responsive element binding protein 2 (IREB2) (Dixon et al., 2012), while other perturbations of mechanisms, including acetylation and methylation, have been observed to regulate iron metabolism in cancer cells by controlling transcript encoding proteins (Manz et al., 2016)