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ArticleCells2014

Flotillins in receptor tyrosine kinase signaling and cancer.

Antje Banning, Nina Kurrle, Melanie Meister, Ritva Tikkanen

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Article in Cells, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Antje BanningInstitute of Biochemistry, Medical faculty, University of Giessen, Friedrichstrasse 24, 35392 Giessen, Germany. Antje.Banning@biochemie.med.uni-giessen.de.
Nina KurrleInstitute of Biochemistry, Medical faculty, University of Giessen, Friedrichstrasse 24, 35392 Giessen, Germany. kurrle@med.uni-frankfurt.de.
Melanie MeisterInstitute of Biochemistry, Medical faculty, University of Giessen, Friedrichstrasse 24, 35392 Giessen, Germany. Melanie.Meister@biochemie.med.uni-giessen.de.
Ritva TikkanenInstitute of Biochemistry, Medical faculty, University of Giessen, Friedrichstrasse 24, 35392 Giessen, Germany. Ritva.Tikkanen@biochemie.med.uni-giessen.de.
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Flotillins are highly conserved proteins that localize into specific cholesterol rich microdomains in cellular membranes. They have been shown to be associated with, for example, various signaling pathways, cell adhesion, membrane trafficking and axonal growth. Recent findings have revealed that flotillins are frequently overexpressed in various types of human cancers. We here review the suggested functions of flotillins during receptor tyrosine kinase signaling and in cancer. Although flotillins have been implicated as putative cancer therapy targets, we here show that great caution is required since flotillin ablation may result in effects that increase instead of decrease the activity of specific signaling pathways. On the other hand, as flotillin overexpression appears to be related with metastasis formation in certain cancers, we also discuss the implications of these findings for future therapy aspects.

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PMID24709906
PMCPMC3980747
OpenAlexW2041522692

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