Alshahrani Shadia Hamoud, Ibrahim Yousif Saleh, Jalil Abduladheem Turki, Altoum Abdelgadir Alamin, Achmad Harun, Zabibah Rahman S, Gabr Gamal A, Ramírez-Coronel Andrés Alexis, Alameri Ameer A, Qasim Qutaiba A, Karampoor Sajad, Mirzaei Rasoul
Medical Surgical Nursing Department, King Khalid University, Almahala, Khamis Mushate, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Medical Laboratory Techniques, Al-maarif University College, Ramadi, Al-Anbar, Iraq.
Front Oncol. 2022 Nov 22;12:1042196. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2022.1042196. eCollection 2022.
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are emerging as a significant modulator of immunity, and their abnormal expression/activity has been linked to numerous human disorders, such as cancer. It is now known that miRNAs potentially modulate the production of several metabolic processes in tumor-associated immune cells and indirectly different metabolic enzymes that affect tumor-associated signaling cascades. For instance, Let-7 has been identified as a crucial modulator for the long-lasting survival of CD8 T cells (naive phenotypes) in cancer by altering their metabolism. Furthermore, in T cells, it has been found that enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) expression is controlled glycolytic metabolism through miRNAs in patients with ovarian cancer. On the other hand, immunometabolism has shown us that cellular metabolic reactions and processes not only generate ATP and biosynthetic intermediates but also modulate the immune system and inflammatory processes. Based on recent studies, new and encouraging approaches to cancer involving the modification of miRNAs in immune cell metabolism are currently being investigated, providing insight into promising targets for therapeutic strategies based on the pivotal role of immunometabolism in cancer. Throughout this overview, we explore and describe the significance of miRNAs in cancer and immune cell metabolism.
微小RNA(miRNA)正成为免疫的重要调节因子,其异常表达/活性与多种人类疾病相关,如癌症。现在已知,miRNA可能调节肿瘤相关免疫细胞中多种代谢过程的产生,并间接调节影响肿瘤相关信号级联反应的不同代谢酶。例如,通过改变代谢,Let-7已被确定为癌症中CD8 T细胞(幼稚表型)长期存活的关键调节因子。此外,在T细胞中,已发现卵巢癌患者中zeste同源物2(EZH2)的表达通过miRNA受糖酵解代谢控制。另一方面,免疫代谢向我们表明,细胞代谢反应和过程不仅产生ATP和生物合成中间体,还调节免疫系统和炎症过程。基于最近的研究,目前正在研究涉及修饰免疫细胞代谢中miRNA的新型且令人鼓舞的癌症治疗方法,这为基于免疫代谢在癌症中的关键作用的治疗策略提供了有前景的靶点。在本综述中,我们探讨并描述了miRNA在癌症和免疫细胞代谢中的重要性。