Department of Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai 201102, China.
Key Laboratory of Neonatal Disease, Ministry of Health, Shanghai 201102, China.
Discov Med. 2020 Sep-Oct;30(160):71-82.
Neuroblastoma (NB) is the most common extracranial solid tumor in children. Despite a variety of treatments, patients with advanced stage disease still have a poor prognosis. The molecular mechanisms underlying NB pathogenesis are not fully known. Increasing evidence shows that long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) is important in multiple ways in NB progression. LncRNA could act as competitive endogenous RNA, serve as a scaffold for proteins, or participate in histone modification, thus affecting proliferation, migration, invasion, and differentiation of NB. Numerous lncRNAs polymorphisms are significantly associated with NB susceptibility. Differently expressed lncRNAs can be used to construct risk scores to evaluate patient outcomes. In conclusion, these lncRNAs have the potential to be diagnostic markers as well as promising therapeutic targets in the future.
神经母细胞瘤(NB)是儿童最常见的颅外实体瘤。尽管采用了多种治疗方法,患有晚期疾病的患者预后仍然很差。NB 发病机制的分子机制尚不完全清楚。越来越多的证据表明,长链非编码 RNA(lncRNA)在 NB 进展中以多种方式发挥重要作用。lncRNA 可以作为竞争性内源性 RNA,充当蛋白质的支架,或参与组蛋白修饰,从而影响 NB 的增殖、迁移、侵袭和分化。许多 lncRNA 多态性与 NB 的易感性显著相关。差异表达的 lncRNAs 可用于构建风险评分来评估患者的预后。总之,这些 lncRNAs 有可能成为未来的诊断标志物和有前途的治疗靶点。