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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2010

Suppression of Rev3, the catalytic subunit of Pol{zeta}, sensitizes drug-resistant lung tumors to chemotherapy.

Jason Doles, Trudy G Oliver, Eleanor R Cameron, Gerald Hsu, Tyler Jacks, Graham C Walker, Michael T Hemann

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 115 papers.

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115citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

115 citing papers in PubMed, 189 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Can Cisplatin Therapy Be Improved? Pathways That Can Be Targeted.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jason DolesThe Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Trudy G Oliver
Eleanor R Cameron
Gerald Hsu
Tyler Jacks
Graham C Walker
Michael T Hemann
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research At MIT

Funding

VIRUS PRODUCTION COREP30CA014051 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI MATTHEW G. VANDER HEIDEN · 1985 to 2026
$93.9M
TOXICOLOGY CORE UNITP30ES002109 · NIEHS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LEVINE, STUART S · 1985 to 2020
$25.6M
Mechanism of Eukaryotic Environmental MutagenesisR01ES015818 · NIEHS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI WALKER, GRAHAM C · 2007 to 2016
$3.8M
Identifying determinants of chemotherapeutic response in vivoR01CA128803 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI HEMANN, MICHAEL · 2007 to 2011
$1.4M
Mechanism of Eukaryotic Environmental MutagenesisR56ES015818 · NIEHS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI WALKER, GRAHAM C · 2011 to 2011
$200k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCI NIH HHS P30 CA014051NCI NIH HHS P30-CA14051NCI NIH HHS R01 CA128803NIEHS NIH HHS ES015818NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES002109NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES015818NIEHS NIH HHS R56 ES015818
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Platinum-based chemotherapeutic drugs are front-line therapies for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer. However, intrinsic drug resistance limits the clinical efficacy of these agents. Recent evidence suggests that loss of the translesion polymerase, Polζ, can sensitize tumor cell lines to cisplatin, although the relevance of these findings to the treatment of chemoresistant tumors in vivo has remained unclear. Here, we describe a tumor transplantation approach that enables the rapid introduction of defined genetic lesions into a preclinical model of lung adenocarcinoma. Using this approach, we examined the effect of impaired translesion DNA synthesis on cisplatin response in aggressive late-stage lung cancers. In the presence of reduced levels of Rev3, an essential component of Polζ, tumors exhibited pronounced sensitivity to cisplatin, leading to a significant extension in overall survival of treated recipient mice. Additionally, treated Rev3-deficient cells exhibited reduced cisplatin-induced mutation, a process that has been implicated in the induction of secondary malignancies following chemotherapy. Taken together, our data illustrate the potential of Rev3 inhibition as an adjuvant therapy for the treatment of chemoresistant malignancies, and highlight the utility of rapid transplantation methodologies for evaluating mechanisms of chemotherapeutic resistance in preclinical settings.

Indexed as

Catalytic DomainDrug Resistance, NeoplasmAdenocarcinomaAnimalsCell Line, TumorCisplatinDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseDrug Screening Assays, AntitumorLung NeoplasmsMiceNeoplasm TransplantationProto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)Tumor Suppressor Protein p53CisplatinDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseDNA polymerase zetaHras protein, mouseProto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)REV3L protein, mouseTumor Suppressor Protein p53

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PMID21068376
PMCPMC2996428
OpenAlexW2012012836

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