ReviewCancers2024
MALAT-1 Is a Key Regulator of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Cancer: A Potential Therapeutic Target for Metastasis.
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- Cancer in transition: discovery of tumor-intrinsic transcriptional programs shaping the immune and microenvironmental landscape.Biomarker research · 2026Review
- Comparative roles between Metastasis Associated Lung Adenocarcinoma Transcript 1 (MALAT1) in lung and colorectal cancer: insights into tumorigenesis and metastasis.Molecular biology reports · 2026Review
- Molecular Mechanisms in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Integrative Roles of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts, Immune Microenvironment, and Precision Therapeutic Opportunities.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Significance of MALAT1 long non-coding RNA and miR-20a-5p in regulating epithelial mesenchymal transition in luminal breast cancer patients.Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute · 2026Article
- Genetic landscape of cancer: mechanisms, key genes, and therapeutic implications.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026Review
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- Cancer cell plasticity and therapeutic resistance: mechanisms, crosstalk, and translational perspectives.Hereditas · 2025Review
- Extracellular RNAs in Liquid Biopsy: Applications in MASLD and MASH Diagnosis and Monitoring.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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- Regulation of immune-mediated chemoresistance in cancer by lncRNAs: an in-depth review of signaling pathways.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025Review
- MALAT1 Expression Is Deregulated in miR-34a Knockout Cell Lines.Non-coding RNA · 2025Article
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Abstract
Metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript-1 (MALAT-1) is a long intergenic non-coding RNA (lncRNA) located on chr11q13. It is overexpressed in several cancers and controls gene expression through chromatin modification, transcriptional regulation, and post-transcriptional regulation. Importantly, MALAT-1 stimulates cell proliferation, migration, and metastasis and serves a vital role in driving the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), subsequently acquiring cancer stem cell-like properties and developing drug resistance. MALAT-1 modulates EMT by interacting with various intracellular signaling pathways, notably the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt and Wnt/β-catenin pathways. It also behaves like a sponge for microRNAs, preventing their interaction with target genes and promoting EMT. In addition, we have used bioinformatics online tools to highlight the disparities in the expression of MALAT-1 between normal and cancer samples using data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). Furthermore, the intricate interplay of MALAT-1 with several essential targets of cancer progression and metastasis renders it a good candidate for therapeutic interventions. Several innovative approaches have been exploited to target MALAT-1, such as short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs), antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), and natural products. This review emphasizes the interplay between MALAT-1 and EMT in modulating cancer metastasis, stemness, and chemoresistance in different cancers.
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