Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21242976›Full record

ArticleOncogene2011

Activation of nuclear factor-kappa B signalling promotes cellular senescence.

E Rovillain, L Mansfield, C Caetano, M Alvarez-Fernandez, O L Caballero, R H Medema, H Hummerich, P S Jat

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Oncogene, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 114 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
114citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

114 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 195 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Review
  3. Review
  4. Review
  5. Signaling pathways and targeted interventions for precancers.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
    Review
  6. Article
  7. Review
  8. Review
  9. Review
  10. Review
  11. Review
  12. Article
  13. Studying Cellular Senescence Using the Model Organism Drosophila melanogaster.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
    Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Review
  18. Article
  19. Review
  20. Article

54 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

E RovillainDepartment of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK.
L Mansfield
C Caetano
M Alvarez-Fernandez
O L Caballero
R H Medema
H Hummerich
P S Jat
University College London · GBUniversity Medical Center Utrecht · NLLudwig Cancer Research · BEMRC Prion Unit · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_U123160651Wellcome Trust 078305
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cellular senescence is a programme of irreversible cell cycle arrest that normal cells undergo in response to progressive shortening of telomeres, changes in telomeric structure, oncogene activation or oxidative stress. The underlying signalling pathways, of major clinicopathological relevance, are unknown. We combined genome-wide expression profiling with genetic complementation to identify genes that are differentially expressed when conditionally immortalised human fibroblasts undergo senescence upon activation of the p16-pRB and p53-p21 tumour suppressor pathways. This identified 816 up and 961 downregulated genes whose expression was reversed when senescence was bypassed. Overlay of this data set with the meta-signatures of genes upregulated in cancer showed that nearly 50% of them were downregulated upon senescence showing that even though overcoming senescence may only be one of the events required for malignant transformation, nearly half of the genes upregulated in cancer are related to it. Moreover 65 of the up and 26 of the downregulated genes are known downstream targets of nuclear factor (NF)-κB suggesting that senescence was associated with activation of the NF-κB pathway. Direct perturbation of this pathway bypasses growth arrest indicating that activation of NF-κB signalling has a causal role in promoting senescence.

Indexed as

Cellular SenescenceCell Line, TransformedFibroblastsForkhead Box Protein M1Forkhead Transcription FactorsGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationGenes, p16Genes, p53Genetic Complementation TestHumansNF-kappa BSignal TransductionForkhead Box Protein M1Forkhead Transcription FactorsFOXM1 protein, humanNF-kappa B

Identifiers

PMID21242976
PMCPMC3080811
OpenAlexW2019625809

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.