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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2014

Ribosome profiling reveals a cell-type-specific translational landscape in brain tumors.

Christian Gonzalez, Jennifer S Sims, Nicholas Hornstein, Angeliki Mela, Franklin Garcia, Liang Lei, David A Gass, Benjamin Amendolara, Jeffrey N Bruce, Peter Canoll and 1 more

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers.

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76citing papers in PubMed
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

76 citing papers in PubMed, 119 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Christian GonzalezDepartments of Systems Biology.
Jennifer S SimsNeurological Surgery.
Nicholas HornsteinDepartments of Systems Biology, Columbia University MD/PhD Program.
Angeliki MelaPathology and Cell Biology.
Franklin GarciaPathology and Cell Biology, Graduate PhD Program in Pathobiology and Molecular Medicine.
Liang LeiPathology and Cell Biology.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-8989
David A GassPediatrics, and.
Benjamin AmendolaraNeurological Surgery.
Jeffrey N BruceNeurological Surgery.
Peter CanollPathology and Cell Biology, pas2182@columbia.edu pc561@columbia.edu.
Peter A SimsDepartments of Systems Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032 pas2182@columbia.edu pc561@columbia.edu.
Center for Systems Biology · USNeurological Surgery · USPediatrics and Genetics · US

Funding

The Role of White Matter Progenitors in Glioma Formation and ProgressionR01NS066955 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI CANOLL, PETER · 2010 to 2014
$1.7M
A Microfluidic System for Image-Guided RNA-Seq of Single Cells in GlioblastomaK01EB016071 · NIBIB · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI SIMS, PETER ALAN · 2012 to 2016
$863k
The Role of Phosphor-RPS6 and Translational Regulation in GliomaF31NS089106 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI HORNSTEIN, NICHOLAS JAMES · 2014 to 2016
$125k
NIBIB NIH HHS 1K01EB016071NIBIB NIH HHS K01 EB016071NINDS NIH HHS 1F31NS089106NINDS NIH HHS 1R01NS066955NINDS NIH HHS F31 NS089106NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS066955
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioma growth is driven by signaling that ultimately regulates protein synthesis. Gliomas are also complex at the cellular level and involve multiple cell types, including transformed and reactive cells in the brain tumor microenvironment. The distinct functions of the various cell types likely lead to different requirements and regulatory paradigms for protein synthesis. Proneural gliomas can arise from transformation of glial progenitors that are driven to proliferate via mitogenic signaling that affects translation. To investigate translational regulation in this system, we developed a RiboTag glioma mouse model that enables cell-type-specific, genome-wide ribosome profiling of tumor tissue. Infecting glial progenitors with Cre-recombinant retrovirus simultaneously activates expression of tagged ribosomes and delivers a tumor-initiating mutation. Remarkably, we find that although genes specific to transformed cells are highly translated, their translation efficiencies are low compared with normal brain. Ribosome positioning reveals sequence-dependent regulation of ribosomal activity in 5'-leaders upstream of annotated start codons, leading to differential translation in glioma compared with normal brain. Additionally, although transformed cells express a proneural signature, untransformed tumor-associated cells, including reactive astrocytes and microglia, express a mesenchymal signature. Finally, we observe the same phenomena in human disease by combining ribosome profiling of human proneural tumor and non-neoplastic brain tissue with computational deconvolution to assess cell-type-specific translational regulation.

Indexed as

AnimalsBrainBrain NeoplasmsCell Transformation, NeoplasticGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGliomaHumansMiceRibosomescell-type-specific expressionglioblastomagliomaribosome profilingtranslational regulation

Identifiers

PMID25122893
PMCPMC4131009
OpenAlexW1999293853

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