Non-coding RNAs in disease: from mechanisms to therapeutics

K Nemeth, R Bayraktar, M Ferracin… - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are a heterogeneous group of transcripts that, by definition, are
not translated into proteins. Since their discovery, ncRNAs have emerged as important …

Targeting non-coding RNAs to overcome cancer therapy resistance

BQ Chen, MP Dragomir, C Yang, Q Li, D Horst… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
It is now well known that non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), rather than protein-coding transcripts,
are the preponderant RNA transcripts. NcRNAs, particularly microRNAs (miRNAs), long non …

Liquid biopsy: from discovery to clinical application

C Alix-Panabières, K Pantel - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Over the past 10 years, circulating tumor cells (CTC) and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA)
have received enormous attention as new biomarkers and subjects of translational research …

Circulating tumor nucleic acids: biology, release mechanisms, and clinical relevance

P Stejskal, H Goodarzi, J Srovnal, M Hajdúch… - Molecular cancer, 2023 - Springer
Background Despite advances in early detection and therapies, cancer is still one of the
most common causes of death worldwide. Since each tumor is unique, there is a need to …

A one-pot isothermal Cas12-based assay for the sensitive detection of microRNAs

H Yan, Y Wen, Z Tian, N Hart, S Han… - Nature Biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
The use of microRNAs as clinical cancer biomarkers is hindered by the absence of accurate,
fast and inexpensive assays for their detection in biofluids. Here we report a one-step and …

The evolving translational potential of small extracellular vesicles in cancer

A Möller, RJ Lobb - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) are regarded as having promising potential to
be used as therapeutics and disease biomarkers. Mechanistically, EVs have been shown to …

Clinical relevance of blood-based ctDNA analysis: mutation detection and beyond

L Keller, Y Belloum, H Wikman, K Pantel - British journal of cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) derived from tumours is present in the plasma of cancer patients. The
majority of currently available studies on the use of this circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) deal …

NLRP3 inflammasome in endothelial dysfunction

B Bai, Y Yang, QI Wang, M Li, C Tian, Y Liu… - Cell death & …, 2020 - nature.com
Inflammasomes are a class of cytosolic protein complexes. They act as cytosolic innate
immune signal receptors to sense pathogens and initiate inflammatory responses under …

Extracellular miRNAs: from biomarkers to mediators of physiology and disease

MA Mori, RG Ludwig, R Garcia-Martin, BB Brandão… - Cell metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
miRNAs can be found in serum and other body fluids and serve as biomarkers for disease.
More importantly, secreted miRNAs, especially those in extracellular vesicles (EVs) such as …

Unravelling tumour heterogeneity by single-cell profiling of circulating tumour cells

L Keller, K Pantel - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Single-cell technologies have contributed to unravelling tumour heterogeneity, now
considered a hallmark of cancer and one of the main causes of tumour resistance to cancer …