Connection between Radiation-Regulating Functions of Natural Products and miRNAs Targeting Radiomodulation and Exosome Biogenesis

Exosomes are cell-derived membranous structures primarily involved in the delivery of the payload to the recipient cells, and they play central roles in carcinogenesis and metastasis. Radiotherapy is a common cancer treatment that occasionally generates exosomal miRNA-associated modulation to regula...

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Published in:International journal of molecular sciences 2023-08, Vol.24 (15), p.12449
Main Authors: Tang, Jen-Yang, Chuang, Ya-Ting, Shiau, Jun-Ping, Yen, Ching-Yu, Chang, Fang-Rong, Tsai, Yi-Hong, Farooqi, Ammad Ahmad, Chang, Hsueh-Wei
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Language:English
Subjects:
Biosynthesis
Cancer therapies
DNA damage
Endoplasmic reticulum
exosome
Exosomes - genetics
Flavonoids
Genes
Health aspects
Melatonin
MicroRNA
MicroRNAs
MicroRNAs - genetics
miRNA
Natural products
Ontology
Pharmacists
Radiation
Radiation therapy
radiomodulation
Radiotherapy
Review
targets
Type 2 diabetes
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Summary:Exosomes are cell-derived membranous structures primarily involved in the delivery of the payload to the recipient cells, and they play central roles in carcinogenesis and metastasis. Radiotherapy is a common cancer treatment that occasionally generates exosomal miRNA-associated modulation to regulate the therapeutic anticancer function and side effects. Combining radiotherapy and natural products may modulate the radioprotective and radiosensitizing responses of non-cancer and cancer cells, but there is a knowledge gap regarding the connection of this combined treatment with exosomal miRNAs and their downstream targets for radiation and exosome biogenesis. This review focuses on radioprotective natural products in terms of their impacts on exosomal miRNAs to target radiation-modulating and exosome biogenesis (secretion and assembly) genes. Several natural products have individually demonstrated radioprotective and miRNA-modulating effects. However, the impact of natural-product-modulated miRNAs on radiation response and exosome biogenesis remains unclear. In this review, by searching through PubMed/Google Scholar, available reports on potential functions that show radioprotection for non-cancer tissues and radiosensitization for cancer among these natural-product-modulated miRNAs were assessed. Next, by accessing the miRNA database (miRDB), the predicted targets of the radiation- and exosome biogenesis-modulating genes from the Gene Ontology database (MGI) were retrieved bioinformatically based on these miRNAs. Moreover, the target-centric analysis showed that several natural products share the same miRNAs and targets to regulate radiation response and exosome biogenesis. As a result, the miRNA-radiomodulation (radioprotection and radiosensitization)-exosome biogenesis axis in regard to natural-product-mediated radiotherapeutic effects is well organized. This review focuses on natural products and their regulating effects on miRNAs to assess the potential impacts of radiomodulation and exosome biogenesis for both the radiosensitization of cancer cells and the radioprotection of non-cancer cells.
ISSN:1422-0067
1661-6596
1422-0067
DOI:10.3390/ijms241512449