Surprisingly, RT-qPCR demonstrated that RCC cells treated with chemotherapeutic drugs showed an inexplicable increase of miR-17-5p and miR-106b-5p expression levels (Additional file 7: Figure S6b and e) that in addition to keeping low TRIM8 protein levels, also keeps low the levels of crucial cell cycle inhibitors such as p21 and PTEN [14, 15]. The gene discussed is TRIM8; the disease is renal cell carcinoma.