ReviewActa bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis2018
Microsatellite instability in colorectal cancer.
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- Influence of methyl donor nutrients as epigenetic regulators in colorectal cancer: A systematic review of observational studies.World journal of gastroenterology · 2023Pooled it
- Pre-treatment prediction of microsatellite instability in colon cancer: a nomogram model combining clinicopathological features and pre-treatment CT-based radiomics.BMC medical imaging · 2026Article
- CD8Cancer science · 2026Article
- Instability in Pentanucleotide Markers in a Subset of Microsatellite Instability-High Colorectal Cancer.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2026Article
- Comparison of clinical, pathological and genomic characteristics between Lynch and non-Lynch patients with MMRd endometrial carcinoma.BMC cancer · 2026Article
- The Promoting Angiogenesis and Its Clinical Significance of CD33Chronic diseases and translational medicine · 2026Article
- Mismatch repair MLH complexes make distinct contributions to post-replicative mismatch repair versus trinucleotide repeat expansions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Association of TIGIT and CD155 with KRAS, NRAS, BRAF, PIK3CA, and AKT Gene Mutations, MSI Status, and Cytokine Profiles in Colorectal Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- AI-enabled multi-omics integration in colorectal cancer: from molecular stratification to clinical translation.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026Review
- Instability in the Penta-C and Penta-D Loci in Microsatellite-Unstable Endometrial Cancer.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Incremental value of extracellular volume fraction based on CT for microsatellite status in colorectal cancer.Japanese journal of radiology · 2025Article
- Immune cell dynamics and prognostic role of M2 macrophages and LDOC1 in colon adenocarcinoma.Discover oncology · 2025Article
- Inflammation-Driven Genomic Instability: A Pathway to Cancer Development and Therapy Resistance.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Integrated In Silico and Experimental Validation of Antrocin as a Plant-Derived Multi-Target Therapeutic for BRAF/MEK/PI3K-Driven Colorectal Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Impaired autophagy by cepharanthine induces immunogenic cell death and enhances anti-PD-1 response in MSS-type colorectal cancer.Oncogene · 2025Article
- Characteristics of gut microbiota in high-methylated colorectal cancer.International journal of clinical oncology · 2025Article
- Clinical, Immunohistochemical, and Inflammatory Profiles in Colorectal Cancer: The Impact of MMR Deficiency.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- S100A14 as a Potential Biomarker of the Colorectal Serrated Neoplasia Pathway.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- TIM-3/Galectin-9 Immune Axis in Colorectal Cancer in Relation to KRAS, NRAS, BRAF, PIK3CA, AKT1 Mutations, MSI Status, and the Cytokine Milieu.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
Microsatellites are short tandem repeat DNA sequences of one to tetra base pairs distributed throughout the human genome, both in coding and non-coding regions. Owing to their repeated structure, microsatellites are particularly prone to replication errors that are normally repaired by the Mismatch Repair (MMR) system. MMR is a very highly conserved cellular process, involving many proteins, resulting in the identification, and subsequent repair of mismatched bases, likely to have arisen during DNA replication, genetic recombination or chemical or physical damage. Proteins within the MMR system include MLH1, PMS2, MSH2, MSH6, MLH3, MSH3, PMS1, and Exo1. Deficient MMR (dMMR) results in a strong mutator phenotype known as microsatellite instability (MSI), characterized by widespread length polymorphisms of microsatellite sequences due to DNA polymerase slippage. MSI is recognized as one of the major carcinogenetic pathways of colorectal cancer (CRC): it represents a molecular hallmark of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), also known as Lynch syndrome (LS); moreover it is detected in 15% of sporadic colorectal cancers, more often due to an epigenetic inactivation of MLH1. Identification of MSI CRC is important, as MSI may serve as a screening tool for detecting LS, a prognostic marker for patient outcome, and a predictive marker for response to chemotherapy and to immunotherapy.
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