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ArticleCancer letters2005

Low complex ganglioside expression characterizes human neuroblastoma cell lines.

Simone Hettmer, Stephan Ladisch, Karen Kaucic

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Article in Cancer letters, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Simone HettmerGlycobiology Program, Center for Cancer and Immunology Research, Children's National Medical Center, Children's Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington DC 20010, USA.
Stephan Ladisch
Karen Kaucic
George Washington University · US

Funding

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE NEUROBLASTOMA TUMOR GANGLIOSIDESR01CA042361 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI LADISCH, STEPHAN · 1986 to 2008
$1.6M
Complex ganglioside function in neuroblastomaR01CA106532 · NCI · CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI LADISCH, STEPHAN · 2005 to 2008
$1.0M
Patterns of ganglioside expression in neuroblastomaR21CA090362 · NCI · CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI KAUCIC, KAREN L · 2002 to 2003
$328k
NCI NIH HHS CA-42361NCI NIH HHS CA-90362NCI NIH HHS R01 CA042361NCI NIH HHS R01 CA106532NCI NIH HHS R21 CA090362
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Low (< or = 35%) or absent expression of the complex 'b' pathway gangliosides GD1b, GT1b and GQ1b (CbG) correlates with an aggressive biological phenotype in human neuroblastoma tumors. To develop an in vitro model to probe mechanisms by which CbG may contribute to neuroblastoma behavior, we have comprehensively evaluated ganglioside expression in nine well-established human neuroblastoma cell lines, all derived from poor prognosis tumors. Total cellular ganglioside content ranged from 8 to 69 nmol/10(8) cells. High performance thin layer chromatography revealed that the simple disialoganglioside GD2 was prominent in eight of the cell lines (up to 60% of total gangliosides), whereas CbG were low (1-21%) in all nine cell lines. The structurally most complex 'b' pathway species, GQ1b, was not detected in any of the cell lines. The prominence of GD2 in neuroblastoma cell lines mirrors the high expression of GD2 that characterizes human neuroblastoma tumors, and the low CbG expression in the cell lines is analogous to that found in clinically and biologically unfavorable neuroblastoma tumors, thus establishing these neuroblastoma cell lines as valuable model systems for study of the role of CbG in the pathobiology of human neuroblastoma.

Indexed as

Gene Expression ProfilingCell SurvivalChromatography, Thin LayerGangliosidesHumansNeuroblastomaPhenotypePrognosisTumor Cells, Culturedganglioside, GD1bGangliosidesGQ1b gangliosidetrisialoganglioside GT1

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PMID15922866
PMCPMC2866625
OpenAlexW2164731895

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