遗传 ›› 2015, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (1): 8-16.doi: 10.16288/j.yczz.2015.01.002

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假基因的功能及其在癌症疾病中的重要作用

汤静思, 杨明耀, 李英   

  1. 四川农业大学,畜禽遗传资源发掘与创新利用四川省重点实验室,成都 611130
  • 收稿日期:2014-09-25 修回日期:2014-10-26 出版日期:2015-01-20 发布日期:2015-01-20
  • 通讯作者: 李英,博士,研究员,研究方向:动物分子进化。E-mail: yingli@sicau.edu.cn E-mail:yingli@sicau.edu.cn
  • 作者简介:汤静思,在读硕士研究生,专业方向:动物分子进化。E-mail:tangjs1115@qq.com 电话:010-64807669;传真:010-64807786; 《遗 传》编辑部 2015年1月 10日
  • 基金资助:
    四川省“千人计划”,四川省青年基金和四川省高校创新团队计划资助

Functional roles of pseudogenes in cancers

Jingsi Tang, Mingyao Yang, Ying Li   

  1. Farm Animal Genetic Resources Exploration and Innovation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
  • Received:2014-09-25 Revised:2014-10-26 Online:2015-01-20 Published:2015-01-20

摘要: 假基因是一段具有与功能基因相似的DNA序列,但由于存在许多突变以致失去了原有的功能。过去的研究认为假基因是没有功能的DNA片段,是基因组进化过程中产生的噪音。然而,随着分子生物学技术的发展,越来越多的研究证明了假基因具有重要的生物学功能。假基因可与功能基因竞争性结合miRNA,从而调控功能基因的表达;假基因还可产生内源性小干扰RNA抑制功能基因的表达;甚至有的假基因还可以编码具有功能的蛋白质。文章通过假基因的分类、假基因的识别、假基因的功能和假基因与癌症疾病的关系等方面综述了假基因研究的最新进展。

关键词: 假基因, 微小RNA, 小干扰RNA, 反义RNA, 癌症

Abstract: Pseudogene is a DNA fragment with high sequence similarity to the corresponding functional gene. Because of accumulation of multiple mutations, pseudogenes have lost their original functions. Previous studies indicated that pseudogenes are dysfunctional relatives of the corresponding functional genes, and are noises in the process of genome evolution. However, with the development of molecular biotechnologies, more and more studies have demonstrated that pseudogenes possess important biologic functions. For example, some pseudogene could regulate the expression of functional genes by competitively binding to the miRNAs, some could produce endogenous small interference RNAs to negatively regulate the expression of functional genes, and some even could encode functional proteins. In this review, we summarize the recent research progresses of pseudogenes through four aspects: the classification, identification, function, and particularly the roles in cancers.

Key words: pseudogene, miRNA, small interference RNA, antisense RNA, cancer