ceRNAs, which can be artificial or natural, function as competitive inhibitors by sequestering miRNAs and saturating the miRNA pool, thereby suppressing the binding of miRNAs to their targets.26, 27 Interestingly, our findings indicated an endogenous interaction between lncRNA799 and miR-454-3p via co-immunoprecipitation with the Ago2 protein in cervical cancer cells. The gene discussed is AGO2; the disease is cervical carcinoma.