Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences (Aug 2021)

Regulatory Non-coding RNAs for Death Associated Protein Kinase Family

  • Qingshui Wang,
  • Qingshui Wang,
  • Youyu Lin,
  • Wenting Zhong,
  • Yu Jiang,
  • Yao Lin,
  • Yao Lin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2021.649100
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8

Abstract

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The death associated protein kinases (DAPKs) are a family of calcium dependent serine/threonine kinases initially identified in the regulation of apoptosis. Previous studies showed that DAPK family members, including DAPK1, DAPK2 and DAPK3 play a crucial regulatory role in malignant tumor development, in terms of cell apoptosis, proliferation, invasion and metastasis. Accumulating evidence has demonstrated that non-coding RNAs, including microRNA (miRNA), long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) and circRNA, are involved in the regulation of gene expression and tumorigenesis. Recent studies indicated that non-coding RNAs participate in the regulation of DAPKs. In this review, we summarized the current knowledge of non-coding RNAs, as well as the potential miRNAs, lncRNAs and circRNAs, that are involved in the regulation of DAPKs.

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