Roles of Splicing Factors in Hormone-Related Cancer Progression

• Main Authors: Toshihiko Takeiwa, Yuichi Mitobe, Kazuhiro Ikeda, Kuniko Horie-Inoue, Satoshi Inoue
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020-02-01
• Series: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
• Subjects: dbhs family proteins; sr proteins; hnrnps; breast cancer; prostate cancer
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/21/5/1551

Splicing of mRNA precursor (pre-mRNA) is a mechanism to generate multiple mRNA isoforms from a single pre-mRNA, and it plays an essential role in a variety of biological phenomena and diseases such as cancers. Previous studies have demonstrated that cancer-specific splicing events are involved in various aspects of cancers such as proliferation, migration and response to hormones, suggesting that splicing-targeting therapy can be promising as a new strategy for cancer treatment. In this review, we focus on the splicing regulation by RNA-binding proteins including <i>Drosophila behavior/human splicing</i> (DBHS) family proteins, serine/arginine-rich (SR) proteins and heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs) in hormone-related cancers, such as breast and prostate cancers.