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ArticleNeuro-oncology2006

Expression studies in gliomas and glial cells do not support a tumor suppressor role for LGI1.

Tiziana Piepoli, Cemile Jakupoglu, Wenli Gu, Elena Lualdi, Blanca Suarez-Merino, Pietro L Poliani, Maria Grazia Cattaneo, Barbara Ortino, Dorota Goplen, Jian Wang and 8 more

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Article in Neuro-oncology, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Somatic alterations in brain tumors.Oncology reports · 2008
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  6. Expression profile of Lgi1 gene in mouse brain during development.Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN · 2008
    Article
  7. Defining the expression pattern of the LGI1 gene in BAC transgenic mice.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2007
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  8. LGI Proteins and Epilepsy in Human and Animals.Journal of veterinary internal medicine
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5 · Who and what money

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18 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Tiziana PiepoliDepartment of Experimental Research and Diagnostics, Istituto Nazionale Neurologico C. Besta, Milan 20133, Italy.
Cemile Jakupoglu
Wenli Gu
Elena Lualdi
Blanca Suarez-Merino
Pietro L Poliani
Maria Grazia Cattaneo
Barbara Ortino
Dorota Goplen
Jian Wang
Rosa Mola
Francesca Inverardi
Carolina Frassoni
Rolf Bjerkvig
Ortrud Steinlein
Lucia M Vicentini
Oliver Brüstle
Gaetano Finocchiaro
University of Bergen · NOUniversity of Bonn · DEUniversity of Milan · ITFondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta · ITLife & Brain (Germany) · DELudwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Disruptions of LGI1 in glioblastoma (GBM) cell lines and LGI1 mutations in families with autosomal dominant epilepsy imply a role for LGI1 in glial cells as well as in neurons. Although we and others could not find LGI1 mutations in malignant gliomas, our initial studies appeared to support the idea that LGI1 is poorly expressed or absent in these tumors. Microarray data suggested that LGI1 could be involved in the control of matrix metalloproteinases, and we found that tumors derived from U87 glioblastoma cells overexpressing LGI1 were less aggressive than U87 control tumors. To our surprise, we observed that LGI1 expression after differentiation of murine neural stem cells was robust in neurons but negligible in glial cells, in agreement with immunohistochemistry studies on rodent brain. This observation could suggest that the variable levels of LGI1 expression in gliomas reflect the presence of neurons entrapped within the tumor. To test this hypothesis, we investigated LGI1 expression in parallel with expression of the neuronal marker NEF3 by real-time PCR on 30 malignant gliomas. Results showed a strong, positive correlation between the expression levels of these two genes (P < 0.0001). Thus, our data confirm that LGI1 is involved in cell-matrix interactions but suggest that its expression is not relevant in glial cells, implying that its role as a tumor suppressor in gliomas should be reconsidered.

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AnimalsBrain NeoplasmsCell Line, TumorGene ExpressionGliomaHumansImmunohistochemistryIntracellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsNeurofilament ProteinsNeurogliaOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisProteinsReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionTumor Suppressor ProteinsIntracellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsLGI1 protein, humanneurofilament protein MNeurofilament ProteinsProteinsTumor Suppressor Proteins

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PMID16533756
PMCPMC1871933
OpenAlexW2142659045

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