Burçin Baran, Nazli Mert Ozupek, G. C. Kocal, Y. Baskın
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Abstract
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer in the world and third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men and women as well. While early screening procedures and removal of small polyps improve the survival rates among the patients, there is still need for new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for developing more effective treatments. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short noncoding RNA fragments, which involve in posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression, and they are shown to involve in tumorigenesis either targeting oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes. Based on the current studies, miRNAs are now suggested as potential biomarkers for CRC diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic responses. In this chapter, the latest findings on the role of miRNA in CRC in many aspects are reviewed: diagnosis (role of circular miRNAs in blood and miRNAs from tissue biopsies and their potential role in pathophysiology and diagnosis of CRC), prognosis (miRNAs related with metastasis, recurrence, and survival rates in CRC), and therapeutic responses (role of miRNAs both in chemotherapies and/or in targeted therapies in CRC). In conclusion, miRNAs are promising molecules for diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic responses of CRC. the microprocessor complex) nucleotide (nt) pre-miRNAs. Pre-miRNA, which is by the nuclear export factor exportin-5, is transferred to the cytoplasm. In the cytoplasm, the cytoplasmic RNase Dicer cleaves the pre-miRNA hairpin to its mature length. Dicer in complex with the transactivation response (TAR) RNA-binding protein (also known as TRBP and TARBP2) and argonaute (AGO) 1–4 mediate the processing of pre-miRNA and the assembly of the RISC (RNA-induced silencing complex). With the formation of this complex structure, one strand of the miRNA duplex is removed and single-stranded miRNA is generated. Interaction complex and target induces posttranscriptional silencing destabilization of and suppression between miR-27b, miR-148a, and miR-326 expression levels and progression-free