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ArticleCell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.)2012

E2F1 confers anticancer drug resistance by targeting ABC transporter family members and Bcl-2 via the p73/DNp73-miR-205 circuitry.

Vijay Alla, Bhavani S Kowtharapu, David Engelmann, Stephan Emmrich, Ulf Schmitz, Marc Steder, Brigitte M Pützer

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Article in Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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47citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 86 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. MiRNAs: main players of cancer drug resistance target ABC transporters.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025
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  4. The E2F family: a ray of dawn in cardiomyopathy.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 2025
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  7. microRNA-205 in prostate cancer: Overview to clinical translation.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Reviews on cancer · 2022
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  8. Genes · 2022
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  14. Mechanisms of Functional Pleiotropy of p73 in Cancer and Beyond.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021
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  19. The broken cycle: E2F dysfunction in cancer.Nature reviews. Cancer · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Vijay AllaDepartment of Vectorology and Experimental Gene Therapy, Biomedical Research Center, Rostock University Medicine, Rostock, Germany.
Bhavani S Kowtharapu
David Engelmann
Stephan Emmrich
Ulf Schmitz
Marc Steder
Brigitte M Pützer
University of Rostock · DECzech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Computer Science · CZ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Resistance to anti-neoplastic agents is the major cause of therapy failure, leading to disease recurrence and metastasis. E2F1 is a strong inducer of apoptosis in response to DNA damage through its capacity to activate p53/p73 death pathways. Recent evidence, however, showed that E2F1, which is aberrantly expressed in advanced malignant melanomas together with antagonistic p73 family members, drives cancer progression. Investigating mechanisms responsible for dysregulated E2F1 losing its apoptotic function, we searched for genomic signatures in primary and late clinical tumor stages to allow the prediction of downstream effectors associated with apoptosis resistance and survival of aggressive melanoma cells. We identified miR-205 as specific target of p73 and found that upon genotoxic stress, its expression is sufficiently abrogated by endogenous DNp73. Significantly, metastatic cells can be rescued from drug resistance by selective knockdown of DNp73 or overexpression of miR-205 in p73-depleted cells, leading to increased apoptosis and the reduction of tumor growth in vivo. Our data delineate an autoregulatory circuit, involving high levels of E2F1 and DNp73 to downregulate miR-205, which, in turn, controls E2F1 accumulation. Finally, drug resistance associated to this genetic signature is mediated by removing the inhibitory effect of miR-205 on the expression of Bcl-2 and the ATP-binding cassette transporters A2 (ABCA2) and A5 (ABCA5) related to multi-drug resistance and malignant progression. These results define the E2F1-p73/DNp73-miR-205 axis as a crucial mechanism for chemoresistance and, thus, as a target for metastasis prevention.

Indexed as

Drug Resistance, NeoplasmAdenoviridaeAntineoplastic AgentsApoptosisATP-Binding Cassette TransportersBase SequenceCell Transformation, NeoplasticCycloheximideDNA-Binding ProteinsE2F1 Transcription FactorGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGene Knockdown TechniquesGenetic VectorsHEK293 CellsHumansMelanomaABCA2 protein, humanABCA5 protein, humanAntineoplastic AgentsATP-Binding Cassette TransportersCycloheximideDNA-Binding ProteinsE2F1 protein, humanE2F1 Transcription FactorMicroRNAsMIR205, humanNuclear ProteinsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2TP53 protein, humanTP73 protein, humanTumor Protein p73Tumor Suppressor Protein p53Tumor Suppressor Proteins

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PMID22871739
PMCPMC3442917
OpenAlexW2085129499

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