Long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 1988 (LINC01988)

LINC01988 (long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 1988, also known as PAAN) is a human long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) gene located in an intergenic region, which means it does not overlap any protein-coding gene. LINC01988 is classified as a lincRNA, a subgroup of lncRNAs distinguished by their position in the genome. LincRNAs are typically longer than 200 nucleotides and do not code for any protein. They can play diverse regulatory roles, including chromatin remodeling, transcriptional modulation, and scaffolding of nucleic acid-protein complexes. While general lncRNAs (and lincRNAs) are implicated in important biological processes and diseases such as cancer, there is not yet concrete functional or disease involvement described for LINC01988 specifically in the literature. Currently, it is catalogued as a genetic transcript without a defined mechanistic or disease-specific role.

Other names

PAANPA-associated noncoding RNALINC01988

Not applicable. No therapeutics with a known, direct mechanism of action targeting LINC01988 are currently described