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ReviewCancer science2014

Exosome proteomics reveals transcriptional regulator proteins with potential to mediate downstream pathways.

Timothy H Ung, Helen J Madsen, Justin E Hellwinkel, Alex M Lencioni, Michael W Graner

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Review in Cancer science, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
83citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

83 citing papers in PubMed, 129 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Specific Binding of Alzheimer's Aβ Peptides to Extracellular Vesicles.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Timothy H UngDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
Helen J Madsen
Justin E Hellwinkel
Alex M Lencioni
Michael W Graner
University of Colorado Denver · US

Funding

Tumor-Homing Exosomes for Drug DeliveryR01EB016378 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI ANCHORDOQUY, THOMAS, GRANER, MICHAEL W. · 2013 to 2016
$1.5M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB016378
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Exosomes are virus-sized, membrane-enclosed vesicles with origins in the cellular endosomal system, but are released extracellularly. As a population, these tiny vesicles carry relatively enormous amounts of information in their protein, lipid and nucleic acid content, and the vesicles can have profound impacts on recipient cells. This review employs publically-available data combined with gene ontology applications to propose a novel concept, that exosomes transport transcriptional and translational machinery that may have direct impacts on gene expression in recipient cells. Here, we examine the previously published proteomic contents of medulloblastoma-derived exosomes, focusing on transcriptional regulators; we found that there are numerous proteins that may have potential roles in transcriptional and translational regulation with putative influence on downstream, cancer-related pathways. We expanded this search to all of the proteins in the Vesiclepedia database; using gene ontology approaches, we see that these regulatory factors are implicated in many of the processes involved in cancer initiation and progression. This information suggests that some of the effects of exosomes on recipient cells may be due to the delivery of protein factors that can directly and fundamentally change the transcriptional landscape of the cells. Within a tumor environment, this has potential to tilt the advantage towards the cancer.

Indexed as

ProteomeSignal TransductionDNA-Binding ProteinsExosomesExtracellular SpaceGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansNeoplasmsProteomicsRNA-Binding ProteinsTranscription FactorsTranscription, GeneticDNA-Binding ProteinsProteomeRNA-Binding ProteinsTranscription FactorsCancerexosomesgene ontologyproteomicstranscriptional regulators

Identifiers

PMID25220623
PMCPMC4454399
OpenAlexW2048474460

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