CPEB3 and hepatocellular carcinoma: To obtain a transcriptome-wide picture of potential CPEB3 targets in HCC, we precipitated CPEB3 mRNA complex from Huh7 cell extracts after transiently transfected with pcDNA3.1-CPEB3-FLAG and detected the associated mRNAs by Illumina Hiseq 2500 sequencing (Fig. 1a).