This work was supported by grants from National Basic Research Program of China(2004CB518804), Hi-Tech Research and Development Program of China (2006AA02Z126) and Zhejiang Province Grant (2006C23006).
The recent investigations have demonstrated that epigenetic such as DNA methylation and histone modification was closely associated with cell growth and malignant tumors, and epigenetic modification was responsible for an important cause of oncogenesis. However, for the recent years some observations have been also shown that the development of tumorigenesis was attributed to transformation expression in microRNA. The latest investigations have revealed that epigenetic was involved in modulation of microRNA expression, on the contrary some kinds of microRNAs could also control epigenetic, moreover, the reciprocal modulation between microRNA and epigenetic could regulate gene expression and induce tumorigenesis. At the same time the data likewise displayed that epigenetic adjusted microRNA expression principally in a way of DNA methylation or histone modification, nevertheless microRNA regulated epigenetic by way of methyltransferases expression, DNA methylation maintenance and histone modification. With regard to the reciprocal modulation between microRNA and epigenetic, a comprehensive and systemic review of reciprocal relationship in modulation of cell growth and oncogenesis was gived.
XU Yan-min, GUO Yan-He, LIU Li, CAI Rong, QIAN Cheng. The Reciprocal Modulation Between Epigenetic and microRNA and The Application for Treatment of Malignant Tumors[J]. Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics,2008,35(12):1343-1350
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