LINC00536 regulates transcriptional repressor TRPS1 in breast cancer
- 1Research Institute McGill University Health Center,
Abstract
Metastatic breast cancer with complex molecular mechanisms of progression accounts for most cancer related deaths in women. To improve diagnosis and drug development, it is important to identify novel biomarkers and critical molecular pathways involved in tumor initiation and progression. Here, we profiled and analyzed the expression of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) from three distinct stages of tumor initiation and progression (hyperplasia, adenoma, and carcinoma). We performed RNAseq on tumor and mammary epithelial cells derived from ROSAmT/mG tumor and non-tumor mice. We identified 1913 differentially expressed protein coding genes and 324 lncRNAs in breast cancer cells of all stages compared with normal mammary epithelial cells. Pearson correlation analysis correlated 93 differentially expressed lncRNAs with protein coding genes, providing a comprehensive lncRNA-protein coding genes co-expression network. Among them, we focused on Gm19303 which was paired with the differentially expressed protein coding gene, transcriptional repressor GATA binding 1 (Trps1), and identified its human counterpart as LINC00536. Both LINC00536 and TRPS1 are only overexpressed in breast cancer and correlate with poor prognosis of patient from the TCGA and GTEx databases. Single cell RNAseq data from the Atlas of Human breast cancers further confirmed that TRPS1 is upregulated in human breast cancer compared to normal human mammary tissue with highest expression in ER+ subgroup. In summary, our study explored the potential role of lncRNAs in breast cancer initiation and progression. *Implications statement: Our findings imply that human LINC00536/TRPS1 serves as a novel and early biomarker of cancer progression and a potential therapeutic target for breast cancer.
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BibTeX
@misc{zhang2026linc00536,
title = {{LINC00536 regulates transcriptional repressor TRPS1 in breast cancer}},
author = {R. Zhang and J. Li and D. Badescu and I. Ragoussis and R. Kremer},
howpublished = {bioRxiv},
year = {2026},
month = aug,
doi = {10.64898/2026.08.31.748275},
url = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.31.748275v1},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - LINC00536 regulates transcriptional repressor TRPS1 in breast cancer
AU - R. Zhang
AU - J. Li
AU - D. Badescu
AU - I. Ragoussis
AU - R. Kremer
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/08/31
PB - bioRxiv
DO - 10.64898/2026.08.31.748275
UR - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.31.748275v1
AB - Metastatic breast cancer with complex molecular mechanisms of progression accounts for most cancer related deaths in women. To improve diagnosis and drug development, it is important to identify novel biomarkers and critical molecular pathways involved in tumor initiation and progression. Here, we profiled and analyzed the expression of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) from three distinct stages of tumor initiation and progression (hyperplasia, adenoma, and carcinoma). We performed RNAseq on tumor and mammary epithelial cells derived from ROSAmT/mG tumor and non-tumor mice. We identified 1913 differentially expressed protein coding genes and 324 lncRNAs in breast cancer cells of all stages compared with normal mammary epithelial cells. Pearson correlation analysis correlated 93 differentially expressed lncRNAs with protein coding genes, providing a comprehensive lncRNA-protein coding genes co-expression network. Among them, we focused on Gm19303 which was paired with the differentially expressed protein coding gene, transcriptional repressor GATA binding 1 (Trps1), and identified its human counterpart as LINC00536. Both LINC00536 and TRPS1 are only overexpressed in breast cancer and correlate with poor prognosis of patient from the TCGA and GTEx databases. Single cell RNAseq data from the Atlas of Human breast cancers further confirmed that TRPS1 is upregulated in human breast cancer compared to normal human mammary tissue with highest expression in ER+ subgroup. In summary, our study explored the potential role of lncRNAs in breast cancer initiation and progression. *Implications statement: Our findings imply that human LINC00536/TRPS1 serves as a novel and early biomarker of cancer progression and a potential therapeutic target for breast cancer.
ER -