Role and mechanism of exosome non-coding RNA in liver fibrosis

Nannan QIAN; Lulu TANG; Taohua WEI; Yue YANG; Wenjie HAO; Wenming YANG

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1001-5256.2021.10.036

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Role and mechanism of exosome non-coding RNA in liver fibrosis

DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-5256.2021.10.036

Nannan QIAN¹,
Lulu TANG²,
Taohua WEI^{1, 2},
Yue YANG¹,
Wenjie HAO¹,
Wenming YANG^{2, 3
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,}

1.
Graduate School, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei 230038, China
2.
Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei 230031, China
3.
Key Laboratory of Xin'an Medicine, Ministry of Education, Hefei 230038, China

Research funding:

National Natural Science Foundation of China (81973825);

National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine: 2019 Project of building evidence based practice capacity for TCM (2019XZZX-NB001);

Open Fund of the Key Laboratory of Xin'an Medical Education Ministry of Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2020xayx12)

Received Date: 2021-03-01
Accepted Date: 2021-03-19
Published Date: 2021-10-20

Abstract

Abstract

Liver fibrosis is the initial stage of the development of various chronic liver diseases into liver cirrhosis and is a reversible process. As a subset of extracellular vesicles that can carry active substances such as proteins, lipids, and RNA, exosomes are involved in intercellular signal communication and have attracted more and more attention in recent years. Studies have shown that non-coding RNAs in exosomes play an important role in the development and progression of liver fibrosis. This article discusses the mechanism of action of exosome long non- coding RNAs (including MALAT1, H19, GAS5, MEG3, PVT1, and P21), exosome short non-coding RNAs (including micro-RNA, small nucleolus RNA, PIWI-interacting RNA, and small interference RNA), and exosome circular RNA in the development and progression of liver fibrosis, and it is concluded that exosomes from different sources (such as hepatocytes and cholangiocytes) carrying non-coding RNAs mainly affect the activation, proliferation, migration, and transformation of hepatic stellate cells. In-depth studies of exosome non-coding RNAs in the future are expected to find potential new targets for the treatment of liver fibrosis.
- Liver Cirrhosis,
- Exosomes,
- RNA, Untranslated

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