Noncoding RNA actions through IGFs and IGF binding proteins in cancer.

ABSTRACT: The insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and their regulatory proteins-IGF receptors and binding proteins-are strongly implicated in cancer progression and modulate cell survival and proliferation, migration, angiogenesis and metastasis. By regulating the bioavailability of the type-1 IGF receptor (IGF1R) ligands, IGF-1 and IGF-2, the IGF binding proteins (IGFBP-1 to -6) play essential roles in cancer progression. IGFBPs also influence cell communications through pathways that are independent of IGF1R activation. Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs), which encompass a variety of RNA types including microRNAs (miRNAs) and long-noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), have roles in multiple oncogenic pathways, but their many points of intersection with IGF axis functions remain to be fully explored. This review examines

SUBMITTER: Kerr A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9203274 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature