RNA干扰及其在癌症治疗中的作用。
RNA interference and its role in cancer therapy.
作者信息
Mansoori Behzad, Sandoghchian Shotorbani Siamak, Baradaran Behzad
机构信息
Immunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
出版信息
Adv Pharm Bull. 2014 Dec;4(4):313-21. doi: 10.5681/apb.2014.046. Epub 2014 Aug 10.
In todays' environment, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the role of cancer in social health. Although a huge budget is allocated on cancer research every year, cancer remains the second global cause of death. And, exclusively, less than 50% of patients afflicted with advanced cancer live one year subsequent to standard cancer treatments. RNA interference (RNAi) is a mechanism for gene silencing. Such mechanism possesses uncanny ability in targeting cancer-related genes. A majority of gene products involved in tumorigenesis have recently been utilized as targets in RNAi based therapy. The evidence from these studies indicates that RNAi application for targeting functional carcinogenic molecules, tumor resistance to chemotherapy and radiotherapy is required in today's cancer treatment. Knock downing of gene products by RNAi technology exerts antiproliferative and proapoptotic effects upon cell culture systems, animal models and in clinical trials in the most studies. The recognition of RNAi mechanism and the progress in this field leaded several new RNAi-based drugs to Clinical Trial phases. This has also developed genome based personalized cancer therapeutics. Hopefully, this type of treatment will work as one of the efficient one for cancer patients.
在当今环境下,忽视癌症在社会健康中的作用变得越来越困难。尽管每年都在癌症研究上投入巨额预算,但癌症仍是全球第二大致死原因。而且,仅有不到50%的晚期癌症患者在接受标准癌症治疗后能存活一年。RNA干扰(RNAi)是一种基因沉默机制。这种机制在靶向癌症相关基因方面具有惊人的能力。最近,大多数参与肿瘤发生的基因产物已被用作基于RNAi疗法的靶点。这些研究的证据表明,在当今的癌症治疗中,需要应用RNAi来靶向功能性致癌分子、肿瘤对化疗和放疗的抗性。在大多数研究中,通过RNAi技术敲低基因产物对细胞培养系统、动物模型和临床试验产生抗增殖和促凋亡作用。对RNAi机制的认识以及该领域的进展使得几种基于RNAi的新药进入临床试验阶段。这也推动了基于基因组的个性化癌症治疗。希望这种治疗方式能成为癌症患者有效的治疗方法之一。