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Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are playing emerging role in the pathogenesis of cancers, but the mechanisms still unknown. In the recent issue of the Nature Communications, Chen and colleagues have demonstrated that YTHDC1 facilitates N6-methyladenosine modified circNSUN2 cytoplasmic export and the circNSUN2/IGF2BP2/HMGA2 complex stabilizes HMGA2 to promote colorectal liver metastasis. These discoveries not only expand our understanding of circRNAs biology in tumor, but also demonstrate that m6A modification plays a key role for circRNAs in RNA metabolism. Therefore, these findings indicate that circRNAs may be a new approach for therapeutic target of cancers.
This work was supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (81773165), Hunan Province Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2018JJ1021), the Key R&D Program of Hunan Province (2017SK2172), and the Science and Technique Foundation of Chenzhou (jsyf2017023).
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