State-of-the-Art of Gene Regulation for Cancer Cell

A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Biological Processes and Systems".

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Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan
Interests: molecular radiation biology and oncology; molecular and cell biology; cancer biology; molecular imaging

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Radiation oncology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers university, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA
Interests: Cellular biology, Cancer biology, Cancer immunology. To investigate the regulation of p53 and its signaling pathway in promoting CRC tumorigenesis.

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Dear Colleagues,

Manipulation of gene regulation is the most common and critical technique in various fields of molecular and cell biological research. It is not only essential for elucidation of mechanisms of cell behaviors in the molecular level, but it is also a fundamental operation for multi-disciplinary research. For instance, gene regulatory technology could integrate with nanotechnology, pharmacology, theranostic technology, drug delivery, molecular imaging, immunology, and neuroscience to approach the biomedical questions from benchside to the bedside. Although gene therapy has not been fully regarded as a modern approach for cancer treatment, the investigation of gene regulation remains essential for evalulating the prognosis of therapeutic efficacy. The genes of interest are also verstile, including coding RNA and non-coding RNA with various lengths. The technologies for gene regulation are also greatly improved for the purposes of stable and general expression, low immunogenicity, target specific editing, low or high cell selectivity, cliinical intension, combining cell therapy, and development of cancer vaccines. Drug discovery is also largely related to the technology of gene regulation to validate the potent drug mechanisms and precise medicine. Therefore, we enthusiastically invite papers presenting novel developments and inventions of gene expression technology with the values of basic research and clinical applications for cancer therapy. The appropriate topics may include but are not limited to the following:

  • Genomic editing technology for expression of cancer targeting genes
  • Biocompatible vehicles for cancer specific delivery of genes
  • Advanced techniques for expression and regulation of coding RNA and non-coding RNA
  • Bioinformatics-based design of technology for expression and regulation of genes in cancers and therapeutic implications

Prof. Dr. Yi-Jang Lee
Dr. Chun-Yuan Chang
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Keywords

  • CRISPR/Cas9
  • system biology
  • transposon based gene delivery
  • foamy virus, lentivirus, adenovirus and AAV
  • coding RNA and non-coding RNA
  • cancer
  • Genomic editing

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Estimation of Gene Regulatory Networks from Cancer Transcriptomics Data
by Seong Beom Cho
Processes 2021, 9(10), 1758; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9101758 - 30 Sep 2021
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Cancer is a genetic disease in which multiple genes are perturbed. Thus, information about the regulatory relationships between genes is necessary for the identification of biomarkers and therapeutic targets. In this review, methods for inference of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from transcriptomics data [...] Read more.
Cancer is a genetic disease in which multiple genes are perturbed. Thus, information about the regulatory relationships between genes is necessary for the identification of biomarkers and therapeutic targets. In this review, methods for inference of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from transcriptomics data that are used in cancer research are introduced. The methods are classified into three categories according to the analysis model. The first category includes methods that use pair-wise measures between genes, including correlation coefficient and mutual information. The second category includes methods that determine the genetic regulatory relationship using multivariate measures, which consider the expression profiles of all genes concurrently. The third category includes methods using supervised and integrative approaches. The supervised approach estimates the regulatory relationship using a supervised learning method that constructs a regression or classification model for predicting whether there is a regulatory relationship between genes with input data of gene expression profiles and class labels of prior biological knowledge. The integrative method is an expansion of the supervised method and uses more data and biological knowledge for predicting the regulatory relationship. Furthermore, simulation and experimental validation of the estimated GRNs are also discussed in this review. This review identified that most GRN inference methods are not specific for cancer transcriptome data, and such methods are required for better understanding of cancer pathophysiology. In addition, more systematic methods for validation of the estimated GRNs need to be developed in the context of cancer biology. Full article
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