Advances in competing endogenous RNA modulation of cancer progression / 肿瘤研究与临床

Protein-coding transcriptome,pseudogenes,long non-coding RNAs and circular RNAs can act as competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA).ceRNA can crosstalk with each other through microRNA recognition elements (MRE),thus regulating the post-transcriptional gene expression.More and more evidences showed that ceRNA could form an extensive network of post-transcription regulation,keep the cell homeostasis and involve in the disease development and progression like tumorigenesis and cancer progression.Depending on up-regulation or down-regulation of different kinds of microRNA in different cells,ceRNA acts as either an oncogene or a tumor suppressor.ceRNA may have a great potential in cancer diagnosis and treatment.