Journal
JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
Volume 239, Issue 1, Pages 6-9Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/path.4703
Keywords
Cilia; Foxj1; RFX; MCIDAS; Cancer; Transcription Factor; microRNA
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Cilia play a plethora of roles in normal development and homeostasis as well as in disease. Their involvement in cell signalling processes and ability to inhibit cell cycle progression make them especially interesting subjects of investigation in the context of tumour formation and malignancy. Several key transcription factors regulate the transcriptional programme in cilia formation and some of these, eg RFX factors and FOXJ1, are implicated in cancer formation. Furthermore, RFX factors and FOXJ1 are increasingly being explored for their potential as markers to diagnose, classify and predict the outcome of cancers in patients, including recent work published in this journal on aggressive ependymoma and choroid plexus tumours. Here, some of the key findings and concepts on the roles of ciliary transcription factors in tumourigenesis are highlighted, and a brief perspective is given on how the investigation of ciliogenesis could contribute valuable tools for the diagnosis and prognosis of cancers. Copyright (c) 2016 Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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