| Literature DB >> 29357973 |
Xingyu Cheng1, Hong Shen1,2.
Abstract
Lung cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer death in China. In recent years, therapies for oncogenedrivers and immune checkpoints have proved inspiring. Circular RNA (circRNA), which is a kind of RNA with covalent ring structure relating to stages and metastasis of cancer, has many special biological functions in physiological processes, diseases and so on. Thus, circRNA is expected to be a potential biomarker for cancer prediction and treatment in view of its high conservation and tissue-specific. However, function analysis and regulatory mechanism of circRNA in lung cancer come so far remains unclear and limited literatures are available. In this review, we highlight the research history, formation mechanism, biological function of circRNA and research progress in cancer, especially in lung cancer. We mean to provide theoretical evidences and new ideas for researches on circRNAs in lung cancer.Entities:
Keywords: Cancer; Circular RNA; MicroRNA sponge; Non-coding RNA; ceRNA
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Year: 2018 PMID: 29357973 PMCID: PMC5972357 DOI: 10.3779/j.issn.1009-3419.2018.01.07
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Zhongguo Fei Ai Za Zhi ISSN: 1009-3419
1环状RNA的形成机制和MicroRNA海绵功能。A:环状RNA的形成机制示意图:内含子反向互补配对(ciRNA)、外显子反向剪接成环(ecircRNA)、保留内含子的转录本反向剪接(EIcircRNA);B:MircoRNA结合mRNA能促进其降解,而环状RNA和前体mRNA上均含有MRE反应元件(MicroRNA Response Element,MRE),能够竞争性结合MicroRNA。从而削弱MircoRNA对mRNA的负反馈抑制作用。
Formation mechanism and function of MicroRNA sponge of circular RNA. A:Abridged general view for formation mechanism of circular RNA:circular intronic RNA(ciRNA)、exonic circRNA(ecircRNA)、exon-intron circRNA(EIcircRNA); B: MircoRNA could promote the degradation of mRNA through combination. Meanwhile circRNA contains MRE response elements just the same as mRNA so that competitive binding with MicroRNA is exist. Thus, circRNA could weaken the negative feedback of MicroRNA on mRNA.
2环状RNA与肿瘤。部分环状RNA已经验证在肿瘤中发挥生物学功能,其中大多数的环状RNA在肿瘤的发生发展中发挥着MicroRNA海绵的作用。
CircRNA and cancer. Some circRNAs have been validated with biological functions in cancer and most of them play the role of MicroRNA sponge in kinds of cancer.