“…The interregulation of CCAT1 and miRNAs including miR7 has been studies in different cancers including NPC (Wang, Zhang & Hao, 2017;Zhang et al, 2017a;Zhang, Cai, Jiang & Xu, 2019); CCAT1 increased cancer cell proliferation and metastasis by acting as a competing endogenous RNA to sponging miRNAs resulting in regulation of gene expression or through regulation of other signaling regulatory axis (Xu et al, 2018;Zhang, Cai, Jiang & Xu, 2019). Bioinformatics analysis and luciferase reporter experiments showed that several lncRNAs were direct target of miR7-5p that were involved in the tumor growth, migration, invasion, and chemoresistance in several cancer types (Dong, Xie & Xu, 2019;Jia et al, 2019;Lai, Yang, Zhu, Ruan, Huang & Zhang, 2019;Mo, Liu, Li & Cui, 2019). One study showed that silencing of CCAT1 significantly inhibited the migration, invasion, and reversed EMT phenotype of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma cells through directly binding to miR-152 (Zhang et al, 2017b).…”