The emerging role of lncRNAs in cancer

M Huarte - Nature medicine, 2015 - nature.com
It is increasingly evident that many of the genomic mutations in cancer reside inside regions
that do not encode proteins. However, these regions are often transcribed into long …

Long noncoding RNAs in development and cancer: potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets

R Fatima, VS Akhade, D Pal, SMR Rao - Molecular and cellular therapies, 2015 - Springer
Long noncoding RNAs are emerging as key players in various fundamental biological
processes. We highlight the varied molecular mechanisms by which lncRNAs modulate …

Long non-coding RNA CCAT1 promotes gallbladder cancer development via negative modulation of miRNA-218-5p

MZ Ma, BF Chu, Y Zhang, MZ Weng, YY Qin… - Cell death & …, 2015 - nature.com
Protein-coding genes account for only~ 2% of the human genome, whereas the vast majority
of transcripts are non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) including long ncRNAs (lncRNAs). A growing …

Long noncoding RNAs in cancer: from function to translation

A Sahu, U Singhal, AM Chinnaiyan - Trends in cancer, 2015 - cell.com
While our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying cancer has significantly
improved, most of our knowledge focuses on protein-coding genes that make up a fraction of …

Long non-coding RNA TUG1 is up-regulated in hepatocellular carcinoma and promotes cell growth and apoptosis by epigenetically silencing of KLF2

MD Huang, WM Chen, FZ Qi, M Sun, TP Xu, P Ma… - Molecular cancer, 2015 - Springer
Background Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related
death worldwide, and the biology of this cancer remains poorly understood. Recent …

Long noncoding RNA PVT1 indicates a poor prognosis of gastric cancer and promotes cell proliferation through epigenetically regulating p15 and p16

R Kong, E Zhang, D Yin, L You, T Xu, W Chen, R Xia… - Molecular cancer, 2015 - Springer
Background Mounting evidence indicates that long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) could play a
pivotal role in cancer biology. However, the overall biological role and clinical significance of …

Predicting lncRNA-disease associations and constructing lncRNA functional similarity network based on the information of miRNA

X Chen - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Accumulating experimental studies have indicated that lncRNAs play important roles in
various critical biological process and their alterations and dysregulations have been …

[HTML][HTML] Double-negative feedback loop between long non-coding RNA TUG1 and miR-145 promotes epithelial to mesenchymal transition and radioresistance in …

J Tan, K Qiu, M Li, Y Liang - FEBS letters, 2015 - Elsevier
LncRNAs have a critical role in the regulation of cellular processes such as cancer
progression and metastasis. In the present study, we confirmed that TUG1 was …

Low expression of long noncoding RNA PANDAR predicts a poor prognosis of non-small cell lung cancer and affects cell apoptosis by regulating Bcl-2

L Han, EB Zhang, DD Yin, R Kong, TP Xu… - Cell death & …, 2015 - nature.com
Recently, a novel class of transcripts, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), is involved in
diseases including cancer. Here, we investigated the the role of lncRNA PANDAR in the …

Upregulation of the long noncoding RNA TUG1 promotes proliferation and migration of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Y Xu, J Wang, M Qiu, L Xu, M Li, F Jiang, R Yin, L Xu - Tumor Biology, 2015 - Springer
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is one of the prevalent and deadly cancers
worldwide, especially in Eastern Asia. The prognosis of ESCC remains poor; thus, it is still …