The role of RNA processing and regulation in metastatic dormancy

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Tumor dormancy is a major contributor to the lethality of metastatic disease, especially for cancer patients who develop metastases years-to-decades after initial diagnosis. Indeed, tumor cells can disseminate during early disease stages and persist in new microenvironments at distal sites for months, years, or even decades before initiating metastatic outgrowth. This delay between primary tumor remission and metastatic relapse is known as "dormancy," during which disseminated tumor cells (DTCs) acquire quiescent states in response to intrinsic (i.e., cellular) and extrinsic (i.e., microenvironmental) signals. Maintaining dormancy-associated phenotypes requires DTCs to activate transcriptional, translational, and post-translational mechanisms that engender cellular plasticity. RNA processing is emerging as an essential facet of cellular plasticity, particularly with respect to the initiation, maintenance, and reversal of dormancy-associated phenotypes. Moreover, dysregulated RNA processing, particularly that associated with alternative RNA splicing and expression of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs), can occur in DTCs to mediate intrinsic and extrinsic metastatic dormancy. Here we review the pathophysiological impact of alternative RNA splicing and ncRNAs in promoting metastatic dormancy and disease recurrence in human cancers.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:78

Enthalten in:

Seminars in cancer biology - 78(2022) vom: 01. Jan., Seite 23-34

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Parker, Kimberly A [VerfasserIn]
Robinson, Nathaniel J [VerfasserIn]
Schiemann, William P [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Alternative splicing
Cancer stem cells
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition
Journal Article
LncRNA
Metastatic dormancy
MicroRNA
Noncoding RNA
RNA processing
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

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Date Completed 21.03.2022

Date Revised 02.01.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.semcancer.2021.03.020

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM323316751