VIM and breast carcinoma: In addition to collagen mRNA, vimentin can specifically bind and post-transcriptionally regulate several other genes, including binding to the 5′ UTR and repression of the mu opioid receptor mRNA in Mouse neuroblastoma cell lines (Song et al., 2013), binding to the 3′ UTR and stabilisation of the alkaline phosphatase mRNA in human primary osteoblasts (Schmidt et al., 2015), and binding to the 3′ UTR and stabilisation of the tissue factor (TF) mRNA in human breast cancer cells through blocking miR-dependent negative regulation of TF mRNA (Francart et al., 2020).