Function of Non-coding RNA in Helicobacter pylori-Infected Gastric Cancer

Gastric cancer is a common malignant tumor of the digestive system. Its occurrence and development are the result of a combination of genetic, environmental, and microbial factors. Helicobacter pylori infection is a chronic infection that is closely related to the occurrence of gastric tumorigenesis. Non-coding RNA has been demonstrated to play a very important role in the organism, exerting a prominent role in the carcinogenesis, proliferation, apoptosis, invasion, metastasis, and chemoresistance of tumor progression. H. pylori infection affects the expression of non-coding RNA at multiple levels such as genetic polymorphisms and signaling pathways, thereby promoting or inhibiting tumor progression or chemoresistance. This paper mainly introduces the relationship between H. pylori-infected gastric cancer and non-coding RNA, providing a new perspective for gastric cancer treatment.


INTRODUCTION
As one of the most common digestive tumors worldwide, the morbidity and mortality of gastric cancer (GC) are increasing annually (Ferlay et al., 2019). The associated risk factors include smoking, overweight, salty food consumption, Epstein-Barr virus infection, and exposure to asbestos. Surgery, chemotherapy, and chemoradiation are the main treatments for GC, but the prognosis is not satisfactory. Numerous studies have shown that the pathogenesis and progression of GC are closely related to those of Helicobacter pylori infection (Helicobacter and Cancer Collaborative Group [HCCG], 2001). H. pylori is regarded as a gram-negative microaerophilic bacterium that is capable of entering the human body early and colonizing the mucosal area of the stomach for a long time (Blaser and Atherton, 2004). H. pylori infection is associated with inducing chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer, GC, and mucosaassociated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma (Petra et al., 2017). Various clinical analysis and basic biological research have revealed that patients with H. pylori-positive GC have more lymph node metastasis and a worse prognosis than have negative patients. Therapy for H. pylori eradication can effectively prevent GC Mera et al., 2018;Suzuki and Matsuzaki, 2018). The Kyoto Global Consensus Report recommends that regardless of age or severity of gastric mucosal lesions, especially in areas with a high incidence of GC, all H. pylori-infected patients should be treated (Sugano et al., 2015;Malfertheiner et al., 2017;Sugano, 2019).
Non-coding RNA (ncRNA) refers to RNA that does not encode protein, which has been divided into long ncRNAs (lncRNAs) and short ncRNAs including microRNAs (miRNAs), PiWi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs), small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), tRNAderived small RNAs (tsRNAs), circular RNAs (circRNAs), and heterochromatin-derived 24nt small RNA in plants according to their length. These RNAs are derived from genomic transcription, but they are not translated into proteins; and they play their respective biological roles at the RNA level. Among these RNAs, lncRNA, miRNA, and some special small ncRNAs (sncRNAs) are mainly involved in the progress of H. pylori-induced GC. LncRNA is an ncRNA that is greater than 200 nucleotides in length. It has many known functions, including transcriptional interference, regulation of alternative splicing, generation of endogenous siRNA, regulation of protein activity, and alteration of protein positioning (Wilusz et al., 2009). In addition, many studies have shown that lncRNA is more tissue-specific than mRNA, indicating that it is also closely related to the function of the tissue (Ransohoff et al., 2018). MiRNA is a non-coding 18-to 24-nucleotide RNA that regulates gene expression at the mRNA level. Mature miRNA can directly bind to the 3 UTR region of the target gene to rapidly degrade mRNA or inhibit protein expression (Bartel, 2004;Acunzo et al., 2015;Shomali et al., 2017).
This review mainly summarizes the mechanism of ncRNA in H. pylori-infected GC. H. pylori infection modulates expression of ncRNA and changes the expression of related target genes. Their impact on tumor progression and drug resistance treatment has been categorized and summarized, and a new perspective for clinical treatment is provided.

HELICOBACTER PYLORI PLAYS A VITAL ROLE IN GASTRIC CANCER
The prevalence of Helicobacter pylori presents large regional differences worldwide, which is related to factors such as geography and basic health conditions. H. pylori survival is facilitated in an acidic environment, and it colonizes in the gastric mucosa by virtue of its spiral shape, exercise ability, adhesion factors, and urease and ammonia production, subsequently producing a complex inflammatory response, damaging the gastric mucosa, and subsequently producing digestive diseases via the expression of various pathogenic markers such as cytotoxinrelated gene A (CagA), BabA adhesin, and empty vesicular toxin (VacA) (Backert et al., 2017). Flagellar movement and various adhesion factors (AlpA/B, BabA, OipA, SabA, and HopQ) promote H. pylori adhesion to epithelial cells. Urease converts urea into ammonia, making the environment in which bacteria live weakly acidic and thereby reducing the level of intestinal bacteria. VacA produces proteins that are toxic to gastrointestinal epithelial cells (Morello, 1999;Amieva and El-Omar, 2008;Atherton and Blaser, 2009;Safaralizadeh et al., 2017;Su et al., 2019). The virulence factor CagA is involved in various signal transduction processes (Pachathundikandi et al., 2013). All these determine the importance of H. pylori in GC.

NON-CODING RNA INFLUENCES THE PROGRESSION AND TREATMENT OF HELICOBACTER PYLORI-INFECTED GASTRIC CANCER
Small RNA Small ncRNAs produced by bacteria are classified as sRNAs, which exert their heterogeneity in a eubacterial environment. The length of sRNA ranges from 50 to 250 nucleotides, and its effect on biological process and its target genes have been identified by various methods in vitro and in vivo (Vogel and Wagner, 2007;Sharma and Vogel, 2009). The present mechanism displays a binding function to protein or an antisense RNA role on trans-encoded mRNAs, in which the latter usually shows translation inhibition or activation through imperfect complementarity between sRNA and its targets, modulating the stability and/or accessibility on the translational machinery (Majdalani et al., 2005;Livny and Waldor, 2007). The sRNAs have also been reported to participate in acid resistance in Escherichia coli (Opdyke et al., 2004;Tramonti et al., 2008), virulence of pathogens (Geissmann et al., 2006;Romby et al., 2006), and iron homeostasis (Chen and Crosa, 1996;Dühring et al., 2006). Helicobacter pylori also produced sRNAs that participate in the progression of GC. A large number of sRNAs were found in an analysis of H. pylori primary transcriptome study (Rieder et al., 2012). Reports show that bacterial Sm-like protein Hfq is necessary for effective function of sRNA (Valentin-Hansen et al., 2004). However, Hfq, an RNA molecular chaperone, is absent in H. pylori. By facilitating the pairing of small RNAs with their target mRNAs, Hfq can affect translation and turnover rates of specific transcripts and contribute to complex posttranscriptional networks (Vogel and Luisi, 2011). Thus, H. pylori was previously thought to lack ribosomal regulation (Mitarai et al., 2007). Because of the lack of Hfq in H. pylori, two methods were designed to identify other auxiliary proteins in sRNA-mediated regulation, and RNA-protein interactions were identified between ribosomal protein S1 and various mRNA and sRNA of H. pylori, which confirmed that H. pylori can control their gene expression via ribosomal regulation (Rieder et al., 2012). The identification of H. pylori sRNA and the mechanism of ribose regulation have potential effects on the virulence mechanism and stress response (Pernitzsch and Sharma, 2012), which may be associated with the development of GC.
The HP0165-HP0166 two-component system (TCS) in H. pylori participates in the increased expression of urease genes, while whether the increased activity of urease is beneficial or harmful to organism is determined by the presence or absence of acid in the stomach (Clyne et al., 1995;Meyer-Rosberg et al., 1996;Pflock et al., 2004Pflock et al., , 2005. HP0165 is the membrane sensor, while HP0166 is its response regulator. For survival and colonization on the gastric surface, H. pylori regulated TCS to change urease activity according to the different intragastric pH values (Wen et al., 2006). A novel cis-encoded antisense sRNA, identified as 5 ureB-sRNA, downregulates ureAB expression by enhancing transcription termination of 5 region of ureB, which validates through an in vitro transcription assay (Wen et al., 2013). However, HP0165-HP0166 TCS negatively regulates expression of 5 ureB-sRNA to increase ureAB expression at low pH values and enhances 5 ureB-sRNA to decrease ureAB expression and to decrease urease activity at high pH values (Wen et al., 2011).
CncR1, a rich and conserved sRNA encoded by the virulenceassociated cag pathogenicity island (cag-PAI) of H. pylori, interacts with the fliK mRNA and downregulates bacterial motility and adhesion ability, significantly impairing bacterial adhesion to host gastric cell lines (Vannini et al., 2016). The sRNA RepG (Regulator of polymeric G-repeats) in H. pylori was also found to directly target a variable homopolymeric G-repeat in the leader of the TlpB chemotaxis receptor mRNA, which contains simple sequence repeats (SSRs) (Pernitzsch et al., 2014). Phase variation in hypermutable SSRs contributes to host adaptation of bacterial pathogens. In this way, sRNA may ensure the survival of H. pylori in the human body, leading to severe disease. In fact, many features of the sRNA are unknown and worth exploring, as they may have important implications for H. pylori-induced GC.
Helicobacter pylori not only plays a role via its own nosotoxin but also participates in the homeostasis regulation of intestinal flora, and H. pylori eradication treatment has a significant effect on the change in intestinal flora . For example, after the application of PPI for H. pylori eradication treatment, the abundance of streptococci, enterococci, staphylococci, and micrococci in the intestinal flora increased while clostridia decreased (Freedberg et al., 2015). A schematic diagram of the pathogenic mechanism of H. pylori is shown (Figure 1).

Long Non-coding RNA
The Mechanism of Long Non-coding RNAs in Helicobacter pylori-Infected Gastric Cancer Polymorphisms in lncRNAs have been reported to influence the splicing and stability of mRNA (Burd et al., 2010;Chung et al., 2011), and the special region known as the "gene desert" was discovered to participate in prostate cancer, colorectal cancer, FIGURE 1 | Function of Helicobacter pylori in gastric carcinogenesis. H. pylori secretes Bab-A, Sab-A, VacA, CagA, and other substances to help invade and colonize in the human gastric mucosa and cause chronic inflammation and superficial gastritis. Its infection leads to a variety of signaling events. Immune cells such as dendritic cells, neutrophils, monocytes, and T cells can produce various microRNAs. Specific sRNA can combine with the HP0165-HP0166 two-component system to regulate the pH adaptability of H. pylori to help its inhabitation and colonization in stomach. H. pylori invasion also causes upregulation or downregulation of lncRNAs and microRNAs. Their complex regulatory network is disrupted, and pathways are affected. Bab-A, blood-group antigen binding adhesion; Sab-A, sialic acid binding protein A. breast cancer, and H. pylori-infected GC (Tomlinson et al., 2007;Ghoussaini et al., 2008;Zhang et al., 2010;He et al., 2017). A case-control study revealed that rs16901946 of prostate cancer ncRNA 1 (PRNCR1) was associated with GC risk, which could be increased by H. pylori infection. Another case-control study showed that LINC00673 rs11655237 with GG genotype was more susceptible to H. pylori infection.
Based on the database analysis of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), a competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) network was constructed, and four lncRNAs (LINC01254, LINC01287, LINC01524, and U95743.1) showed higher expression in H. pylori infection-positive GC patients, and the results were validated by real-time PCR. In contrast, microarray analysis showed different results, in which 23 lncRNAs were upregulated and 21 downregulated [such as lncRNA NR_026827 (Zhong et al., 2018)] in H. pylori-infected GES-1 gastric epithelial cell, and some of the results were also found by PCR (Yang et al., 2015;Polakovicova et al., 2018). Among them, a recent network analysis showed that RP11-169F17.1 and RP11-669N7.2 were related to H. pylori infection-induced gastritis, as their targets showed great overlap with H. pylori-infection associated genes (Yang and Song, 2019). Seven upregulated and 17 downregulated lncRNAs were found using GSE5081 and GSE66229 (Zhang et al., 2020). LINC00152 and H19 were previously shown to be significantly upregulated in GC patients' blood samples and cancer tissues, which was validated to be a risk factor in the diagnosis and prognosis of GC with H. pylori infection (Pang et al., 2014;Yang T. et al., 2016).
Regarding the underlying mechanism, the lncRNA-RNA network was constructed based on the profiling of H. pyloriinfected GES-1 cells, for which a concrete example is the downregulation of MUC2 by lncRNA AF147447 to suppress cell proliferation and invasion in the H. pylori-infection background (Zhu et al., 2015;Zhou et al., 2016). According to the RNAseq analysis of H. pylori-infected AGS cells, THAP domaincontaining nine antisense RNA 1 (THAP9-AS1) was found to be induced by H. pylori infection and to promote the migration and proliferation of GC cells (Jia et al., 2019). The expression level of lnc-SGK1 was elevated as a consequence of H. pylori infection and a high-salt diet. Lnc-SGK1 increases the transcription of SGK1 in a cis-regulatory manner, which activates JunB and disrupts T helper cell differentiation .The results of lncRNA were mainly derived from database analysis, and there was a lack of clinical studies.

Long Non-coding RNAs Influence the Drug Resistance and Prognosis of Helicobacter pylori-Infected Gastric Cancer
Chemotherapy can achieve a certain effect on the treatment of GC, but the acquisition of drug resistance will lead to the failure of chemotherapy in GC patients. Although the mechanism of anticancer drug resistance has been extensively studied, its specific mechanism has not yet been elucidated. In recent years, more and more studies have shown that ncRNA plays a regulatory role in the generation and maintenance of drug resistance. Cisplatin is a commonly used drug in the treatment of GC , but its resistance has been found to be closely related to ncRNA. It is reported that lncRNA BCAR4 expression was enhanced in cisplatin-resistant cell strain SGC7901/DDP. And the drug resistance of cell strains was positively correlated with the expression level of BCAR4 . And it was found that the removal of lncRNA ANRIL inhibited the development of multidrug resistance (MDR) in GC cells (Lan et al., 2016). At present, many ncRNAs have been found to play a regulatory role in chemotherapy resistance of GC, and even some ncRNAs play a relatively key role. Therefore, ncRNAs can be used to be a kind of candidate drugs to develop new molecular targeted therapy strategies or reverse the resistance of GC cells to chemotherapy.
Besides, lncRNA is also related to prognosis of GC. Researchers found that the knockdown of lncRNA CASC19 inhibited proliferation and migration of GC cells in vitro. And their multivariate Cox analysis confirmed that CASC19 overexpression was an independent prognostic factor for overall survival . A set of 24-lncRNAs significantly associated with disease-free survival (DFS) was even established and used to improve prognosis prediction of GC . Actually, miRNAs have been studied for much longer than lncRNAs. And at the same time, there are more research results.

MicroRNA
The Mechanism of MicroRNAs in Helicobacter pylori-Infected Gastric Cancer From the perspective of polymorphism, miR-27a rs895819 and H. pylori have shown an interaction effect in gastric carcinogenesis . In contrast, miR-124a, miR-34b, and miR-34c have been reported to be downregulated in H. pylori-infected gastric mucosa, and miR-124a downregulation is associated with CpG hypermethylation of the miR-124a3 locus and higher IL-8 expression (Tahara et al., 2019).Additionally, miR-124 downregulation leads to elevated expression of spermine oxidase (SMOX) as it directly binds directly to the 3 UTR of SMOX mRNA, and this process can be reversed by 5-azacytidine (Murray-Stewart et al., 2016). H. pylori eradication induces decreased methylation (p < 0.01) and increased expression (p = 0.03) of miR-133a (Hyun Lim et al., 2018). MiR-204 is upregulated in GC compared with H. pylori-positive gastritis (p < 0.004) (Kuo et al., 2019).Other examples about phenotype changes associated with miRNA in H. pylori-infected GC have been mentioned in Table 1.
Based on the mechanism, the change in miRNA expression is closely related to H. pylori-produced virulence factors. MiR-34a was found to be significantly reduced in the H. pylori + GC group by rTip-α (a toxin secreted by H. pylori), while its overexpression decreased the level of TLP4, TNF-α, and IL-6. Viability was enhanced by rTip-α but decreased by miR-34a, which induces cell proliferation . Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from H. pylori activates sp1 to increase MDM2 expression, while MDM2 represses p63 to inhibit Dicer, leading to inhibition of miR-106b and miR-375. JAK1 and STAT3 are downstream target genes of miR-106b . MiR-134 targets FoxM1 (Forkhead box protein M1) to suppress the proliferation, invasion, and Many signaling pathways are involved in the regulation between H. pylori infection and miRNA. H. pylori infection causes activation of the NF-κB signaling pathway, which leads to miR-7 downregulation, while miR-7 targets the IκB kinase IKKε to repress RELA activation. In return IKKε and RELA repress miR-7. Thus, the repression of RELA and FOS is released, and cell proliferation and tumorigenesis are promoted . H. pylori infection activates NF-κB, increases IL-6 secretion, and promotes AP-1 and STAT3, which induce transcription of miR-21; and it plays an oncogenic role in cancer development, including proliferation, migration, and apoptosis (Zhang et al., 2008;Belair et al., 2009;Ma and Tao, 2012). MiR-21 activates COX2, which participates in preneoplastic gastric lesions that are resistant to apoptosis (Shukla et al., 2016). MiR-3178 decreases the expression of TRAF3, TNF-α, and IL-6, accompanied by the inhibition of NF-κB signals, while H. pylori infection presents Tip-α to inhibit miR-3178 expression, thus activating the NF-κB signal and promoting inflammation and carcinogenesis . NF-κB is also involved in the upregulation of miR-223-3p by binding to the promoter of primary miR-223-3p. H. pylori infection promotes FZD7 (Frizzled 7) expression, which is an important coreceptor in the WNT signaling pathway, promoting cell proliferation, while miR-27b targets the 3 UTR of FZD7 to suppress FZD7 expression in GC (Geng et al., 2016). Double-stranded miR-30a is transformed to two singlestranded miRNAs, including miR-30a-3p and miR-30a-5p. The former regulates β-catenin nuclear translocation by inhibiting COX2, while the latter targets BCL9 to regulate TCF/LEF promoter activity. In H. pylori-infected GC, miR-30a plays a tumor suppressor role in cancer development . H. pylori infection in GC increases the level of miR-99b, which inhibits mTOR expression to upregulate autophagy, inducing intracellular H. pylori elimination and cell death (Yang L. et al., 2018).
However, there are also reports that miR-146 and miRlet-7 are significantly downregulated in H. pylori-infected GC (Ranjbar et al., 2018). MiR-146a acts as a tumor suppressor, as it reduces the expression of pro-metastatic genes like L1CAM and ROCK1 (Shomali et al., 2019). Some miRNAs have their own target genes and regulate the progression of GC at various time points. MiR-152 and miR-200b inhibit B7-H1 [a member of the B7 costimulatory family of molecules that bind to programmed death-1 (PD-1) and play a critical immunoregulatory role in the cell-mediated immune response] expression by binding to its 3 UTR, while H. pylori infection inhibits the ability of the miRNA to promote B7-H1 expression . H. pylori infection in GC tissue promotes miR-222-3p expression, decreasing the levels of its target HIPK2 (homeodomain-interacting protein kinase 2) and thus promoting proliferation and invasion and inhibiting apoptosis (Tan et al., 2018). Another analysis showed no significant difference in the expression of miR-222 between H. pylori-positive and H. pylori-negative GC tissues (Noormohammad et al., 2016). H. pylori infection leads to miR-328 downregulation and CD44v9 (CD44, variant 9) upregulation, and this upregulation can enhance reactive oxygen species resistance to prevent cell death (Ishimoto et al., 2015). Clinical statistical analysis showed that miR-375 downregulation and upregulation of its target JAK2 (Janus kinase 2) were associated with H. pylori infection in patients with GC (p < 0.05) . MiR-375 is regarded as an inhibitor of H. pylori-induced gastric carcinogenesis by inhibiting the expression of lncRNA SOX2OT (SOX2 overlapping transcript) and SOX2, a master regulator of the pluripotency of cancer stem cells (Shafiee et al., 2016). MiR-375 regulates the JAK2-STAT3 pathway, which affects BCL2 and TWIST1 expression to promote neoplastic transformation (Miao et al., 2014). A special miRNA requiring attention in H. pylori infection is the elevation of miR-30d expression, which enhances H. pylori intracellular survival via downregulation of the autophagy pathway (validated by several genes like ATG2B and BECN1) (Yang X. et al., 2016) Table 2).

MicroRNAs Influence the Drug Resistance of Helicobacter pylori-Infected Gastric Cancer
Many miRNAs are also related to drug resistance and impact the treatment of GC. Early H. pylori eradication and aspirin use have been suggested to prevent development of the intestinal metaplasia in GC , while miR-21, 155, and 233 have been suggested to have a positive correlation with H. pylori infection to spasmolytic polypeptide-expressing metaplasia (SPEM) (Hyun Lim et al., 2018). H. pylori infection elevates miR-21 expression, while COE (Celastrus orbiculatus) inhibits this upregulation. COE upregulates PDCD4 expression by decreasing the methylation of its promoter and inhibits  H. pylori-induced inflammation and EMT .
H. pylori-infection elevates miR-223 expression, and it targets the 3 UTR of FBXW7 to modulate its expression and the G1/S transition of the cell cycle. Additionally, miR-223 shows cisplatin resistance, which can be reversed by overexpression of FBXW7 (Zhou et al., 2015a). Accompanied by H. pylori infection, CagA induces chemoresistance and CIC (cancerinitiating cell) properties like self-renewal and tumor-initiating capacity, while miR-320a and miR-4496 target β-catenin and ABCG2 (ATP-binding cassette, subfamily G, and member 2) at the transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels to attenuate CagA induction. Furthermore, the combination treatment of miR-320a/-4496 with 5-fluorouracil in an orthotopic mouse MiR-320a, miR-4496 5-Fluorouracil Kang et al., 2016Kang et al., , 2017 model has been shown to attenuate gastric tumorigenesis and metastatic potential (Kang et al., 2017). Rebamipide upregulates miR-320a/-4496 to suppress H. pylori CagA-induced β-catenin and CIC marker gene expression. This treatment could enhance sensitivity to chemotherapeutic drugs (Kang et al., 2016). It was found that the expression of miR-320a was downregulated in GC cells, and the sensitivity of GC cells to DDP was enhanced by directly regulating to ADAM10 (Ge et al., 2017). And miR-29b can enhance the sensitivity of GC cell by directly targeting PI3K/Akt pathway . In addition, the low expression of miR-125b , miR-181a (Zhao et al., 2016), miR-22 (Qian et al., 2017), and so on was found to be associated with DDP resistance in GC. On the other hand, the development of MDR is also a key cause of treatment failure in GC, and it was found UCA could increase MDR of GC by directly downregulating miR-27b (Fang et al., 2016) (summarized in Table 3). Several miRNAs have been found to be biomarkers for the prognosis of GC. MiR-490-3p is downregulated in H. pyloripositive GC and is significantly correlated with lymph node metastasis and clinical stage (Qu et al., 2017). According to microarrays and RT-PCR, miR-145 is downregulated and miR-194 is upregulated significantly in H. pylori-positive GC (Demiryas et al., 2019). Urinary miR-6807-5p and miR-6856-5p perform as biomarkers when combined with H. pylori infection (ACU = 0.885) in the detection of GC (Iwasaki et al., 2019). The mechanism remains unclear. It may provide doctors with another way to quickly detect GC in the future.

CONCLUSION
There are presently many reports on the mechanism of ncRNAs in relation to GC, but research on the mechanism related to Helicobacter pylori infection has not attracted sufficient attention. For instance, GClnc1 (GC-associated lncRNA 1) has been regarded as a modular scaffold of WDR45 and KAT2A histone modifiers. It can regulate the localization and histone modification of SOD2. GClnc1 shows a strong correlation with the carcinogenesis, invasion, growth, and prognosis of GC. Another is clinical analysis showed that 78% of GC patients with higher GClnc1 expression are H. pylori-infected. The mechanism underlying the interaction between H. pylori and GClnc1 merits further exploration (Sun et al., 2016).
Most current research mainly shows the correlation and interaction (promotion or interference) of ncRNA in H. pyloriinfected GC. H. pylori infection in GC causes expression changes in miRNAs or lncRNAs, while miRNAs and lncRNAs can interact with each other. Another miRNA in turn affects the efficiency of H. pylori infection. Data analysis has mainly been derived from clinical data, databases, or sequencing or array analyses of H. pylori-infected normal gastric epithelial cells. In this case, a large number of research targets are obtained, but there remains a lack of further clarification of the specific molecular mechanism, which needs to be further confirmed and evaluated in animal models or in vitro experiments to provide more reliable evidence for clinical treatment. Concurrently, in analyses of clinical data, focusing on the correlation and interaction between ncRNA and various H. pylori virulence factors also provides a good perspective. Array and database analyses have provided large amounts of data, but they need to be further confirmed and analyzed, a stage of research that is still in the preliminary phases. NcRNA plays a very important role in the progression of H. pylori-infected GC. It can not only affect the chemotherapy resistance of GC but also serve as a biomarker for the prognosis of GC. As a new type of ncRNA, circRNA has been found to have the potential as a prognostic biomarker for GC (Shan et al., 2019). For example, the expression of hsa_circ_0001649 in GC was significantly lower than that in paired non-tumor tissues. What is more, compared with preoperative plasma samples, the expression level of hsa_circ_0001649 was upregulated after surgery, suggesting that hsa_circ_0001649 may be a follow-up indicator for GC patients after surgery . And CircPVT1 levels were observed to be independent prognostic indicators of overall survival and DFS in GC patients . At present, ncRNAs including circRNAs, miRNAs, and lncRNAs have the potential to be used as prognostic biomarkers for GC, and previous studies have shown that many ncRNAs can accurately predict the prognosis of patients, which is of great significance to both doctors and patients. However, more work and efforts are still needed to be done for clinical application. Actually, we can found that ncRNA has been studied much longer than lncRNAs, and its experimental technique is more mature. And at the same time, there are more research results. But it could not prove that miRNA plays a more important role than lncRNAs in H. pylori-infected GC. The mechanism about lncRNAs still needs to be explored. And there are many kinds of ncRNAs in which their function has not been discovered in H. pylori-infected GC, and it would be a very promising research direction in the field of biomedicine.

AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS
CW and YH wrote the manuscript. SW, BZ, and YB revised the manuscript. YH and QL was responsible for searching the references. CY projected and edited the manuscript. XX and SY reviewed the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.