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CELL COMMUNICATION AND SIGNALING
卷 19, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12964-021-00771-6
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Toll like receptor 4; MicroRNA-155; Inflammatory bowel disease; Colitis-associated cancer; Positive feedback loop
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- National Natural Science Funding of China [:71974153, 81602108]
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is closely associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer, with Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) playing a key role in linking oncogenic infection to colonic inflammatory and malignant processes. Overexpression of TLR4 in colitis and colitis-associated cancer (CAC) promotes tumorigenesis by facilitating cell proliferation, inhibiting apoptosis, promoting invasion and metastasis, and creating a tumor-favorable microenvironment. Studies have shown an interplay between TLR4 and miR-155 in the context of different disorders or cell lines, with a possible positive feedback loop between TLR4 and miR-155 contributing to the synergistic effect on CAC development.
Ulcerative colitis (UC) has closely been associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer. However, the exact mechanisms underlying colitis-associated cancer (CAC) development remain unclear. As a classic pattern-recognition receptor, Toll like receptor (TLR)4 is a canonical receptor for lipopolysaccharide of Gram-negative bacteria (including two CAC-associated pathogens Fusobacterium nucleatum and Salmonella), and functions as a key bridge molecule linking oncogenic infection to colonic inflammatory and malignant processes. Accumulating studies verified the overexpression of TLR4 in colitis and CAC, and the over-expressed TLR4 might promote colitis-associated tumorigenesis via facilitating cell proliferation, protecting malignant cells against apoptosis, accelerating invasion and metastasis, as well as contributing to the creation of tumor-favouring cellular microenvironment. In recent years, considerable attention has been focused on the regulation of TLR4 signaling in the context of colitis-associated tumorigenesis. MicroRNA (miR)-155 and TLR4 exhibited a similar dynamic expression change during CAC development and shared similar CAC-promoting properties. The available data demonstrated an interplay between TLR4 and miR-155 in the context of different disorders or cell lines. miR-155 could augment TLR4 signaling through targeting negative regulators SOCS1 and SHIP1; and TLR4 activation would induce miR-155 expression via transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms. This possible TLR4-miR-155 positive feedback loop might result in the synergistic accelerating effect of TLR4 and miR-155 on CAC development.
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