Upregulation of the long non-coding RNA HOTAIR promotes esophageal squamous cell carcinoma metastasis and poor prognosis.
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...Since its first link to metastasis in breast cancer, elevated expression of HOTAIR has been reported in at least 16 types of malignancies [19,22-24,49-82]....
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...Epigenetic silencing of WIF-1 due to promoter hypermethylation is a frequent mechanism that causes aberrant activation of the WNT⁄β-catenin pathway in several human cancers, as well as in ESCC [104]....
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...Various reports have demonstrated that HOTAIR is a key regulator of chromatin dynamics and is misregulated in various carcinomas such as urothelial carcinoma [92], pancreatic tumors [93], hepatocellular carcinoma [94-97], colorectal carcinomas [98, 99], ovarian cancer tissues [100, 101], sarcomas [102], esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) [103-106], renal carcinomas [20], nasopharyngeal carcinoma [107], gastrointestinal stromal tumors [82], Laryngeal squamous cell cancer [108, 109], gall bladder cancers [68], nonfunctional pituitary adenoma [110], prostate cancer [111], cervical tumors [109, 112, 113], melanomas [114], gastric cancers [45, 115, 116], Ta/T1 bladder cancer [72] and endometrial tumors [44, 117], (Table 1)....
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...Cancer patients with higher HOTAIR levels have poor prognosis for overall survival [5, 12, 13, 21, 22, 44, 68, 81, 82, 93, 95, 97-100, 102-106, 110, 111, 117, 119, 129, 130, 134, 135, 137-148]....
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...Exogenously added recombinant human WIF-1 protein in ESCC cells, overexpressing HOTAIR, inhibited the migration and invasion ability, although, no correlations were found between WIF-1 protein level and prognosis of patients with ESCC [104]....
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...AC C EP TE D M AN U SC R IP T Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC): ESCC cells and tissues showed inverse correlation between HOTAIR overexpression and decreased WIF-1 (WNT inhibitory factor-1) expression, HOTAIR overexpression also promoted H3K27 tri-methylation in the promoter region of WIF-1 [104]....
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...As a novel molecule in lncRNAs world, HOTAIR initially became well-known for its involvement in primary breast tumors and breast cancer metastases, wherein elevation of HOTAIR promoted invasiveness and metastasis [16]....
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...HOTAIR is primarily associated with polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2), where it acts along with trimethylate H3K27 to repress transcription of specific metastasis suppressor genes [15,16]....
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...Cancer has been traditionally regarded as a genetic disease, but current research has revealed that cancer development and progression also involves epigenetic abnormalities [6]....
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