NOVA2 and cancer: NOVA2, a member of the Nova family of neuron-specific RBPs, was also upregulated in the quasi-mesenchymal cells from both cell lines, possibly as the result of the differential expression of miR-7-5p (Xiao, 2019), as previously shown in non-small cell lung (Xiao, 2019) and prostate (Lu et al., 2015) cancer.