Research progress of long non-coding RNA in tumor epithelial-mesenchymal transition

Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) is a kind of RNA molecule which is longer than 200 nucleotides and has no capacity of coding proteins. Accumulating evidences have indicated that several lncRNAs, such as HOTAIR, MALAT-1, H19 and BANCR may promote tumor metastasis by inducing epithelial-mesenchymal transition. Key words: Neoplasm metastasis; Epithelial-mesenchymal transition; Long non-coding RNA