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Review
. 2016 Mar;37(3):2779-88.
doi: 10.1007/s13277-015-4663-9. Epub 2015 Dec 29.

LncRNAs: key players and novel insights into cervical cancer

Li Peng  1   2   3 , Xiaoqing Yuan  4   5 , Binyuan Jiang  1   2   3 , Zaili Tang  6 , Guan-Cheng Li  7   8   9
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Review

LncRNAs: key players and novel insights into cervical cancer

Li Peng et al. Tumour Biol. 2016 Mar.

Abstract

Cervical cancer contributed the second highest number of deaths in female cancers, exceeded only by breast cancer, carrying high risks of morbidity and mortality. There was a great need and urgency in searching novel treatment targets and prognosis biomarkers to improve the survival rate of cervical cancer patients. Many long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) were emerging as pivotal regulators in various biological processes and took vitally an effect on the oncogenesis and progression of cervical cancer. In this review, we summarized the origin and overview function of lncRNAs; highlighted the roles of lncRNAs in cervical cancer in terms of prognosis and tumor progression, invasion and metastasis, apoptosis, and radio-resistance; and outlined the molecular mechanisms of lncRNAs in cervical cancer from the aspects of the interaction of lncRNAs with proteins/mRNAs (especially in HPV protein) and miRNAs, as well as RNA N-methyladenosine (m6A) methylation of lncRNAs. Meanwhile, the application of lncRNAs as biomarkers in cervical cancer prognosis and predictors for metastasis was also discussed. An overview of these researches will be valuable for broadening horizons into mechanisms, selection of meritorious biomarkers for diagnosis as well as prognosis, and future targeted therapy of cervical cancer.

Keywords: Cervical cancer; Dysregulation; EMT; EZH2; Function; GAS5; HOTAIR; LncRNA; LncRNA-ANRIL; LncRNA-CCHE1; LncRNA-EBIC; LncRNA-LET; MALAT1; MEG3; Mechanism; NEAT2; TUSC8; Xist; ceRNA; m6A.

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