ArticleCancers2021
Changes in Methylation across Structural and MicroRNA Genes Relevant for Progression and Metastasis in Colorectal Cancer.
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- Late-Stage Downregulation of miR-138-5p Promotes Colorectal Cancer Progression.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
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- An overview of potential of natural compounds to regulate epigenetic modifications in colorectal cancer: a recent update.Epigenetics · 2025Review
- The Role of Methylation as an Epigenetic Marker in HPV-Related Oral Lesions.Journal of medical virology · 2025Article
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- Prediction of Distant Metastases in Patients with Kidney Cancer Based on Gene Expression and Methylation Analysis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- MicroRNA Methylome Signature and Their Functional Roles in Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Chemoresistance.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- An Editorial View on the Special Issue "Colorectal Cancers: From Present Problems to Future Solutions".Cancers · 2022Article
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Abstract
MiRs are important players in cancer and primarily genetic/transcriptional means of regulating their gene expression are known. However, epigenetic changes modify gene expression significantly. Here, we evaluated genome-wide methylation changes focusing on miR genes from primary CRC and corresponding normal tissues. Differentially methylated CpGs spanning CpG islands, open seas, and north and south shore regions were evaluated, with the largest number of changes observed within open seas and islands. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway enrichment analysis revealed several of these miRs to act in important cancer-related pathways, including phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)-protein kinase B (Akt) and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways. We found 18 miR genes to be significantly differentially methylated, with MIR124-2, MIR124-3, MIR129-2, MIR137, MIR34B, MIR34C, MIR548G, MIR762, and MIR9-3 hypermethylated and MIR1204, MIR17, MIR17HG, MIR18A, MIR19A, MIR19B1, MIR20A, MIR548F5, and MIR548I4 hypomethylated in CRC tumor compared with normal tissue, most of these miRs having been shown to regulate steps of metastasis. Generally, methylation changes were distributed evenly across all chromosomes with predominance for chromosomes 1/2 and protein-coding genes. Interestingly, chromosomes abundantly affected by methylation changes globally were rarely affected by methylation changes within miR genes. Our findings support additional mechanisms of methylation changes affecting (miR) genes that orchestrate CRC progression and metastasis.
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