ReviewFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2021
Critical Roles of PIWIL1 in Human Tumors: Expression, Functions, Mechanisms, and Potential Clinical Implications.
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- Unraveling the role of PIWI/piRNAs in stem cell therapy: Epigenetic mechanisms and therapeutic potentials.Genes & diseases · 2026Review
- Biological roles and clinical potential of piRNAs in cancer: Insights into glioblastoma.Iranian journal of basic medical sciences · 2026Review
- Integration of multi-omics data to unveil the molecular landscape and role of piRNAs in early-onset colorectal cancer.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- Targeting Regulatory Noncoding RNAs in Human Cancer: The State of the Art in Clinical Trials.Pharmaceutics · 2025Review
- The potential role of PIWI-interacting RNAs in non-small cell lung cancer.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Review
- Post-transcriptional regulation as a conserved driver of neural crest and cancer-cell migration.Current opinion in cell biology · 2024Review
- HPV16 E6/E7-mediated regulation of PiwiL1 expression induces tumorigenesis in cervical cancer cells.Cellular oncology (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2024Article
- Elevated expression patterns of P-element Induced Wimpy Testis (PIWI) transcripts are potential candidate markers for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Cancer biomarkers : section A of Disease markers · 2024Article
- Novel roles of PIWI proteins and PIWI-interacting RNAs in human health and diseases.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2023Review
- Non-gonadal somatic piRNA pathways ensure sexual differentiation, larval growth, and wing development in silkworms.PLoS genetics · 2023Article
- Extraction, Characterization, and Evaluation of the Cytotoxic Activity of Piperine in Its Isolated form and in Combination with Chemotherapeutics against Gastric Cancer.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- P-element-Induced Wimpy-Testis-Like Protein 1 Regulates the Activation of Pancreatic Stellate Cells Through the PI3K/AKT/mTOR Signaling Pathway.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2023Article
- The Role of RASSF1C in the Tumor Microenvironment.Current issues in molecular biology · 2023Article
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- Neurospora crassa is a potential source of anti-cancer agents against breast cancer.Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) · 2022Article
- PIWI-Interacting RNAs (piRNAs): Promising Applications as Emerging Biomarkers for Digestive System Cancer.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2022Review
- LRGCPND: Predicting Associations between ncRNA and Drug Resistance via Linear Residual Graph Convolution.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
P-element-induced wimpy testis (PIWI)-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNA molecules that are 24-31 nucleotides in length. PiRNAs are thought to bind to PIWI proteins (PIWL1-4, a subfamily of Argonaute proteins), forming piRNA/PIWI complexes that influence gene expression at the transcriptional or post-transcriptional levels. However, it has been recently reported that the interaction of PIWI proteins with piRNAs does not encompass the entire function of PIWI proteins in human tumor cells. PIWIL1 (also called HIWI) is specifically expressed in the testis but not in other normal tissues. In tumor tissues, PIWIL1 is frequently overexpressed in tumor tissues compared with normal tissues. Its high expression is closely correlated with adverse clinicopathological features and shorter patient survival. Upregulation of PIWIL1 drastically induces tumor cell proliferation, epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), invasion, cancer stem-like properties, tumorigenesis, metastasis and chemoresistance, probably via piRNA-independent mechanisms. In this article, we summarize the current existing literature on PIWIL1 in human tumors, including its expression, biological functions and regulatory mechanisms, providing new insights into how the dysregulation of PIWIL1 contributes to tumor initiation, development and chemoresistance through diverse signaling pathways. We also discuss the most recent findings on the potential clinical applications of PIWIL1 in cancer diagnosis and treatment.
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