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. 2023 Jan 12;24(2):1506. doi: 10.3390/ijms24021506

Table 3.

miRNAs involved in the pathogenesis of lung cancer.

miRNA Genetic Location Target Mechasims References
miR-7 miR-7 is derived from three precursors: pri-miR-7-1 (9q21), pri-miR-7-2 (15q26) and andpri-miR-7-3 (19q13) EGFR Sustaining proliferative signaling [139,140]
miR-27 19p13.12 EGFR Sustaining proliferative signaling [141,142,143,144]
miR-30 6q13 EGFR Sustaining proliferative signaling [145,146,147]
miR-34 1p36.22 EGFR Sustaining proliferative signaling [148,149,150]
PD-L1 Avoiding immune destruction and tumors promoting inflammation
miR-128 2q21.3 EGFR Sustaining proliferative signaling [151,152,153,154]
VEGF Inducing angiogenesis
miR-134 14q32.31 EGFR Sustaining proliferative signaling [155,156,157]
miR-542 Xq26.3 EGFR Sustaining proliferative signaling [158,159,160]
miR-1258 2q31.3 Grb2 Sustaining proliferative signaling [161,162,163]
miR-148a 7p15.2 SOS Sustaining proliferative signaling [164,165,166]
miR-181a chromosome 1 (37.p5) RAS Sustaining proliferative signaling [167,168]
miR-193a 17q11.2 RAS Sustaining proliferative signaling [169,170,171]
miR-760 1p22.1 ROS1 Sustaining proliferative signaling [172,173,174]
miR-96 7q32.2 EML4-ALK Sustaining proliferative signaling [175,176,177]
miR-200c/ 12p13.31 PI3K Sustaining proliferative signaling [178,179,180,181,182]
chromosome 1 ZEB1/2 Activating invasion and metastasis
miR-200 VEGF Inducing angiogenesis
PD-L1 Avoiding immune destruction and tumors promoting inflammation
miR-520a 19q13.42 PI3K Sustaining proliferative signaling [183,184,185]
miR-641 19q13.2 MDM2 Evading growth suppressors [186,187,188]
miR-660 Xp11.23 MDM2 Evading growth suppressors [189,190]
miR-15a 13q14.2 CDK/Cyclin Evading growth suppressors [191,192,193]
miR-16 13q14 CDK/Cyclin Evading growth suppressors [194,195,196,197]
Bcl Resisting cell death
miR-449a 5q11.2 E2F Evading growth suppressors [198,199,200,201]
miR-299 14q32.31 hTERT Enabling replicative immortality [202,203,204]
miR-491 9p21.3 hTERT Enabling replicative immortality [205,206,207]
miR-512 19q13.42 hTERT Enabling replicative immortality [208,209,210]
miR-29 7q32.3 DNMT Enabling replicative immortality [211,212,213]
miR-146A 5q33.3 Smad Activating invasion and metastasis [214,215,216]
miR-21 17q23.1 TGF-β Activating invasion and metastasis [217,218,219,220,221]
PTEN Avoiding immune destruction and Tumors promoting inflammation
miR-23 no data TGF-β Activating invasion and metastasis [222,223,224]
miR-99A 21q21.1 TGF-β Activating invasion and metastasis [225,226,227]
miR-155 21q21.3 TGF-β Activating invasion and metastasis [228,229,230,231]
miR-192 11q13.1 TGF-β Activating invasion and metastasis [232,233,234,235]
miR-115 no data TGF-β Activating invasion and metastasis [236,237]
miR-520 19q13.42 TGF-β Activating invasion and metastasis [238,239,240]
miR-497 17p13.1 HDGF Inducing angiogenesis [241,242,243,244]
miR-494 14q32.31 PTEN Inducing angiogenesis [245,246,247,248]
miR-126 9q34.3 VEGF Inducing angiogenesis [249,250,251,252]
miR-33b 17p11.2 LDHA Deregulating cellular energetics [253,254,255]
miR-144 17q11.2 GLUT Deregulating cellular energetics [256,257,258]
miR-124 8p23.1 Akt Deregulating cellular energetics [259,260,261]
miR-199a 19p13.2 HIF-1 Deregulating cellular energetics [262,263,264]
miR-31-5p 9p21.3 FIH Deregulating cellular energetics [265,266,267]
miR-28 3q28 PD-1PTEN Avoiding immune destruction and tumors promoting inflammation [268,269,270]
miR-138 16q13 PD-1 Avoiding immune destruction and tumors promoting inflammation [271,272]
PD-L1
miR-197 1p13.3 CKS1B Avoiding immune destruction and tumors promoting inflammation [273,274,275]
miR-513 Xq27.3 PD-L1 Avoiding immune destruction and tumors promoting inflammation [276,277,278,279]
miR-20 13q31.3 PTEN Avoiding immune destruction and tumors promoting inflammation [280,281,282]
miR-130 11q12.1 PTEN Avoiding immune destruction and tumors promoting inflammation [283,284,285]
miR-424 Xq26.3 CD80 Avoiding immune destruction and tumors promoting inflammation [286,287,288,289]
miR-136 14q32.2 CTLA-4 Avoiding immune destruction and tumors promoting inflammation [290,291,292,293]
miR-301b 22q11.21 BH3 Resisting cell death [294,295,296,297,298]

Abbreviations: EGFR—epidermal growth factor receptor; PD-L1—programmed death-ligand 1; VEGFA—vascular endothelial growth factor A; Grb2—growth factor receptor bound protein 2; SOS—Ras/Rac guanine nucleotide exchange factor; Ras—rat sarcoma virus; ROS1—ROS proto-oncogene 1, receptor tyrosine kinase; EML4—echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4; ALK—anaplastic lymphoma kinase; PI3K—phosphoinositide 3-kinase; ZEB1 zinc finger E-box binding homeobox 1; MDM2—mouse double minute 2 homolog; CDK—cyclin-dependent kinase; Bcl—B-cell lymphoma; hTERT—telomerase reverse transcriptase; DNMT—DNA methyltransferase; SMAD—suppressor of mothers against decapentaplegic; TGF-β—transforming growth factor beta; PTEN—phosphatase and tensin homolog; HDGF—heparin binding growth factor; LDHA—lactate dehydrogenase A; GLUT—glucose transporter; HIF-1—hypoxia inducible factor 1 subunit alpha; FIH—hypoxia-inducible factor inhibitor; CKS1B—CDC28 protein kinase regulatory subunit 1B; CD80—cluster of differentiation 80; CTLA-4—cytotoxic T cell antigen 4; BH3—interacting domain death agonist.