Colorectal cancer (CRC) ranks as the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Studies have shown that CRC patients with KRAS mutations, especially KRAS, have an increased risk of metastasis. Emerging evidence indicates that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are crucial in the carcinogenesis and progression of various cancers, regulating multiple biological processes but the link between KRAS mutations and lncRNAs in CRC remains unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCancer immunotherapies have greatly changed the prospects for the therapy of many malignancies, including colon cancer. Macrophages as the effectors of cancer immunotherapy provide considerable promise for cancer treatment. Prolyl 4-hydroxylase subunit alpha 3 (P4HA3) plays a cancer-promoting role in a variety of cancers, including colon cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To explore new biomarkers related to microsatellite instability in order to better predict prognosis and guide medication.
Methods: The "limma" R package was used to identify differentially expressed genes in GSE24514, and then weighted correlation network analysis was used to select key genes. Different cell types in the tumor microenvironment were identified and analyzed by single-cell sequencing, with a Lasso regression model used to screen prognostic variables.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) ranks as the most common gastrointestinal solid carcinoma globally. Substantial evidence has established a pivotal role for circular RNAs (circRNAs) in CRC progression. In this study, differentially expressed circRNAs were analyzed based on a public dataset (GSE126094) and elevated expression of circCASK (hsa_circ_0001917) was validated in CRC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Gastric cancer (GC) is an aggressive gastrointestinal tumor. MiRNAs participate in the tumorigenesis of GC. Nevertheless, the function of miR-221-3p in GC remains largely unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCancer Biother Radiopharm
April 2024
Trigger transposable element-derived 1 () is a human-specific gene, but no studies have been conducted to determine its mechanism of action. Our aim is to ascertain the function and mode of action of in the development of colon cancer. The authors used bioinformatics to analyze the relationship between and the clinical characteristics of colon cancer, as well as its prognosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZEB2 is a protein-coding gene that is differentially expressed in tumors and can regulate the growth of tumor cells. This study investigated the specific regulatory mechanism of ZEB2 in COAD, a common cancer with high rates of morbidity and mortality. Multi-omics panoramic display of expression and function of ZEB2 in colon cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFColon cancer is a common malignant tumor in the digestive tract, with relatively high rates of morbidity and mortality. It is the third most common type of tumor in the world. The effective treatment of advanced colon cancer is limited, so it is particularly important to study the new pathogenesis of colon cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFColorectal cancer incidence and mortality have increased in recent years, with more than half of patients who died of colorectal cancer developing liver metastases. Consequently, colorectal cancer liver metastasis is the focus of clinical treatment, as well as being the most difficult. The primary target genes related to colorectal cancer liver metastasis were via bioinformatics analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnal Cell Pathol (Amst)
April 2022
Numerous studies have been conducted to demonstrate that miRNA is strongly related to colon cancer progression. Nevertheless, there are few studies regarding the function for miR-1266-3p in colon cancer, and the molecular mechanism remains poorly know. Our study was designed to examine the level of miR-1266-3p expression among the colon cancer tissue and cell and to study the role and regulatory mechanism for miR-1266-3p among colon cancer's malignant biologic behavior.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCan J Gastroenterol Hepatol
May 2022
Gastric cancer is one of the cancers with the highest incidence in the world. Gamma-glutamyltransferase 5 (GGT5) is expressed in different cancers and its role in cancers remains unclear. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the value of GGT5 in stomach adenocarcinoma (STAD).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProlyl 4-hydroxylase subunit alpha 3 (P4HA3) has been known to be associated with a variety of human cancers. However, the role of P4HA3 on colon cancer growth and metastasis is unclear. In this study, we investigated the effect of P4HA3 on the growth and metastasis of colon cancer and its possible molecular mechanism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFColorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the prevalent types of human malignancies and ranks as the second leading cause of cancer-associated death worldwide. Dysregulated miRNAs have been promulgated as oncogenes or tumor-suppressive genes participating in the initiation and progression of CRC. A recent study reported that miR-346 was highly expressed in CRC patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMethyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2) has been characterized as an oncogene in several types of cancer. However, its precise role in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains unclear. Hence, this study aimed to evaluate the potential role of MeCP2 in pancreatic cancer progression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objective: Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a highly aggressive neoplasm featured with regional invasiveness and distant metastasis, which often present a phenotype of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Long non-coding RNAs (LncRNAs) are dysregulated during carcinogenesis, and up-regulated LncRNA-activated by TGF-β (Lnc-ATB) supports tumor growth and metastasis via tumor suppressor microRNA 200 (miR-200). However, the role of Lnc-ATB in CCA is unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSRY-box 9 (SOX9) is overexpressed in a number of human tumors, including gastric cancer (GC). However, the function of SOX9 in the development of GC remains unknown. In the present study, SOX9 activated the Hippo-yes-associated protein (YAP) signaling pathway to enhance the epithelial-mesenchymal transition in GC cell lines.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecent studies show that YTH domain family 2 (YTHDF2) preferentially binds to mA-containing mRNA regulates localization and stability of the bound mRNA. However, the role of YTHDF2 in pancreatic cancers remains to be elucidated. Here, we find that YTHDF2 expression is up-regulated in pancreatic cancer tissues compared with normal tissues at both mRNA and protein levels, and is higher in clinical patients with later stages of pancreatic cancer, indicating that YTHDF2 possesses potential clinical significance for diagnosis and prognosis of pancreatic cancers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough the function of miR-200a has been discussed in many cancers and fibrotic diseases, its role in pancreatic fibrosis is still poorly understood. In this study, we for the first time confirm that miR-200a attenuates TGF-β1-induced pancreatic stellate cells activation and extracellular matrix formation. First, we find that TGF-β1 induces activation and extracellular matrix (ECM) formation in PSCs, and the effects are blocked by the inhibitor of PI3K (LY294002).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFurin, a well-characterized proprotein convertase, plays an important role in many diseases and links to tumor metastasis. However, the role of furin in pancreatic cancer progression remains to be elucidated. In the present study, we found that furin promotes the growth and the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) of pancreatic cancer cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Methyl-CpG-binding domain 3 (MBD3) is an aberrant expression in human malignancies. However, the role of MBD3 in pancreatic cancer progression remains to be clarified. In this study, we investigated the effects of MBD3 on the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), and the underlying mechanism in pancreatic cancer cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough a disintegrin and metalloproteinase-17 (ADAM17) overexpression has been demonstrated in numerous human tumors including gastric cancer, its role in gastric cancer development remains to be clarified. In the present study, we identify that ADAM17 activates TGF-β/Smad signaling to promote epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in gastric cancer cells. We found that ADAM17 promotes proliferation, migration and invasion in gastric carcinoma cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDendrobium is one of the three largest genera and presents some of the most intricate taxonomic problems in the family Orchidaceae. Based on five DNA markers and a broad sampling of Dendrobium and its relatives from mainland Asia (109 species), our results indicate that mainland Asia Dendrobium is divided into eight clades (with two unplaced species) that form polytomies along the spine of the cladogram. Both Dendrobium and Epigeneium are well supported as monophyletic, whereas sect.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecently, there have been a lot of intense debates about the acceptance/rejection of paraphyletic groups in biological classification. On the one hand, evolutionary classification states that similarity and common descent are two criteria for biological classification and paraphyletic groups are natural units of biological classification. On the other hand, cladistic classification considers that common descent is the only criterion in biological classification and monophyly should be strictly adhered to.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF