scholarly journals The Biological Effect and Clinical Application of Long Noncoding RNAs in Colorectal Cancer

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 431-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenqiang Sun ◽  
Jinbo Liu ◽  
Chen Chen ◽  
Quanbo Zhou ◽  
Shuaixi Yang ◽  
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common malignancies in the world. Easier recurrence and metastasis is the main cause of mortality in CRC patients, and the markers applied for diagnosis and treatment of CRC is still urgently needed to early diagnose and evaluate therapeutic effect. Long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) is a class of noncoding RNA that the length is more than 200 nucleotides. With the development of sequencing technique about transcriptome, increasing lncRNAs are focused on their function and mechanism related to the nosogenesis and pathology of CRC. Recent studies report that lncRNAs acted as crucial role in CRC and could be as biomarker for CRC diagnosis and treatment. In this review, we display the regulation of lncRNA by interacting with DNA, RNA and protein and highlight the double role of lncRNAs as oncogene or anti-tumor gene involved in Wnt signaling pathway, p53 signaling pathway or others to be an regulator in CRC development. Lastly, we discuss some new finding of lncRNAs, especially lncRNA in exosome, which could be as potential markers for diagnosis and treatment of CRC in future.

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuanrui Ma ◽  
Jiaqing Xiang ◽  
Guixiao Huang ◽  
Yaxi Zhao ◽  
Xinyu Wang ◽  
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Background and purpose: FXR is a promising target for the treatment of human cholestatic liver disease (CLD). SIRT1 is a deacetylase which promotes FXR activity through deacetylating FXR. Pterostilbene (PTE) is an activator of SIRT1. However, the role of PTE in cholestasis has so far not been investigated. We examined whether PTE treatment alleviate liver injury in DDC or ANIT-induced experimental cholestasis, and explored the underlying mechanisms.Experimental approach: Mice with DDC- or ANIT-induced cholestasis were treated with different dose of PTE. Primary hepatocytes and bone marrow derived macrophages were used in vitro to assess the molecular mechanism by which PTE may improve CLD. Identical doses of UDCA or PTE were administered to DDC- or ANIT-induced cholestasis mice.Key results: PTE intervention attenuated DDC or ANIT-induced cholestasis. PTE inhibited macrophage infiltration and activation in mouse liver through the SIRT1-p53 signaling pathway, and it improved hepatic bile metabolism through the SIRT1-FXR signaling pathway. Compare with UDCA, the same doses of PTE was more effective in improving cholestatic liver injury caused by DDC or ANIT.Conclusion and implications: SIRT1 activation in macrophages may be an effective CLD treatment avenue. Using CLD models, we thus identified PTE as a novel clinical candidate compound for the treatment of CLD.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeyin Rong ◽  
Zai Luo ◽  
Zhongmao Fu ◽  
Pengshan Zhang ◽  
Tengfei Li ◽  
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Abstract Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) ranks as the third most frequently diagnosed cancer and is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths. Therefore, further researches were required to identify novel and more effective diagnoses and to identify molecular targets in treatment of CRC.Methods: CRC fresh frozen tissues and cell lines were used to detect C2CD4A expression by qRT-PCR and western blotting. The biological functions of C2CD4A were performed in vitro and in vivo. Western blotting, cDNA array, IP-MS, Co-IP, and Ubiquitination assay were used to analyze the interaction between C2CD4A and p53. Bioinformatics analysis, FISH, RNA sequencing, luciferase reporter assay, RNA immunoprecipitation, RNA pull-down and rescue experiments, were deployed to detect upstream regulation mechanism of C2CD4A.Results: C2CD4A was aberrantly upregulated in CRC tissues compared with adjacent normal colorectal tissues. C2CD4A knockdown significantly promoted cell apoptosis and with inhibited proliferation in vitro, and tumorigenicity in vivo, whereas C2CD4A overexpression had displayed an opposite effect. Moreover, circSLC6A6 was upregulated and positively associated with C2CD4A expression in CRC tissues. C2CD4A was positively regulated by circSLC6A6 via sponging miR-1265. Fundamentally, C2CD4A inhibited P53 signaling pathway through interacting with P53 and increasing its ubiquitination and degradation.Conclusion: Our results identified that circSLC6A6/miR-1265/C2CD4A axis, which was involved in CRC via the P53 signaling pathway, could be as a therapeutic target for CRC.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 3428-3436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ke Zhang ◽  
Yixuan Meng ◽  
Xiangming Cao ◽  
Ye Xu ◽  
Mulong Du ◽  
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