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Abstract
Cervical cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death among women worldwide, and high-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) plays a crucial role in its development. HPV's oncogenic processes include the viral oncoproteins E6 and E7, which interfere with essential biological processes, causing DNA instability and uncontrolled cell growth. Recent research suggests that microRNAs (miRNAs) have a role in HPV-mediated tumor development, with dysregulation of particular miRNAs influencing cancer cell proliferation, immune escape, and therapy resistance. This review summarizes the most recent research on HPV's molecular interactions with host miRNAs, focusing on their functions in regulating tumor-suppressive genes and oncogenic mechanisms. Furthermore, we investigate HPV-induced epigenetic alterations that contribute to miRNA dysregulation and corresponding changes in cell cycle control, apoptosis, and metastasis. Discovering these molecular interactions provides fresh insights into personalized medicine techniques for CC detection and therapy.
期刊介绍:
Infectious Agents and Cancer is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that encompasses all aspects of basic, clinical, epidemiological and translational research providing an insight into the association between chronic infections and cancer.
The journal welcomes submissions in the pathogen-related cancer areas and other related topics, in particular:
• HPV and anogenital cancers, as well as head and neck cancers;
• EBV and Burkitt lymphoma;
• HCV/HBV and hepatocellular carcinoma as well as lymphoproliferative diseases;
• HHV8 and Kaposi sarcoma;
• HTLV and leukemia;
• Cancers in Low- and Middle-income countries.
The link between infection and cancer has become well established over the past 50 years, and infection-associated cancer contribute up to 16% of cancers in developed countries and 33% in less developed countries.
Preventive vaccines have been developed for only two cancer-causing viruses, highlighting both the opportunity to prevent infection-associated cancers by vaccination and the gaps that remain before vaccines can be developed for other cancer-causing agents. These gaps are due to incomplete understanding of the basic biology, natural history, epidemiology of many of the pathogens that cause cancer, the mechanisms they exploit to cause cancer, and how to interrupt progression to cancer in human populations. Early diagnosis or identification of lesions at high risk of progression represent the current most critical research area of the field supported by recent advances in genomics and proteomics technologies.