Kumar Rajarethinam, Muthukrishnan Saradhadevi
Translational Genomics Research Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Med Oncol. 2025 Jun 27;42(8):289. doi: 10.1007/s12032-025-02859-2.
Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most frequent cancers in males and one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths globally. Despite advances in diagnosis and treatment, PCa continues to pose substantial hurdles, especially due to its potential to evolve into more aggressive and treatment-resistant types. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are transcripts with more than 200 nucleotides that do not encode proteins and have been identified as pivotal regulators in PCa. They influence crucial cellular mechanisms such as cell cycle control, gene expression, and translation, and their dysregulation is linked to tumour growth, progression, and metastasis. Furthermore, lncRNAs modulate androgen receptor (AR) signalling and act as competitive endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs), sequestering microRNAs to alter target gene expression, therefore driving tumour progression. This review uniquely integrates recent advances in understanding the lncRNA-mediated regulatory networks, highlighting their roles in epigenetic, post-transcriptional regulations and key signalling pathways in PCa. It also underscores the emerging clinical applications of lncRNAs as predictive biomarkers and therapeutic targets, with a focus on personalised medicines. Despite the challenges posed by patient heterogeneity and lncRNAs' complex regulatory networks, ongoing research into lncRNAs holds the promise for improving early diagnosis and advancing the development of more effective, personalised therapeutic strategies. Collectively, this review summarises the current knowledge on growing roles of lncRNAs in PCa pathogenesis, clinical relevance and their therapeutic potential and provides potential insights and future directions for translating lncRNA research into effective clinical applications.
前列腺癌(PCa)是男性中最常见的癌症之一,也是全球癌症相关死亡的主要原因之一。尽管在诊断和治疗方面取得了进展,但PCa仍然构成重大障碍,特别是因为它有可能演变成更具侵袭性和抗治疗性的类型。长链非编码RNA(lncRNAs)是一种转录本,其长度超过200个核苷酸,不编码蛋白质,已被确定为PCa中的关键调节因子。它们影响细胞周期控制、基因表达和翻译等关键细胞机制,其失调与肿瘤生长、进展和转移有关。此外,lncRNAs调节雄激素受体(AR)信号传导,并作为竞争性内源RNA(ceRNAs),隔离微小RNA以改变靶基因表达,从而推动肿瘤进展。本综述独特地整合了在理解lncRNA介导的调控网络方面的最新进展,突出了它们在PCa的表观遗传、转录后调控和关键信号通路中的作用。它还强调了lncRNAs作为预测性生物标志物和治疗靶点的新兴临床应用,重点是个性化药物。尽管患者异质性和lncRNAs复杂的调控网络带来了挑战,但对lncRNAs的持续研究有望改善早期诊断,并推动更有效、个性化治疗策略的发展。总体而言,本综述总结了目前关于lncRNAs在PCa发病机制、临床相关性及其治疗潜力方面不断增长的作用的知识,并为将lncRNA研究转化为有效的临床应用提供了潜在的见解和未来方向。
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