SLC17A1 and hepatocellular carcinoma: Jin et al. investigated the role of long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 942 in promoting HCC cell proliferation and converting naive CD4 T cells into inducible Treg (iTreg) cells, which are regulated by solute carrier family 7 member 11, suggesting a protective role for naive CD4+ T cells in HCC pathogenesis [57].