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ArticleBMC cancer2015

Enhanced tumour cell nuclear targeting in a tumour progression model.

Michael S Nastasie, Helmut Thissen, David A Jans, Kylie M Wagstaff

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Article in BMC cancer, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michael S NastasieNuclear Signalling Laboratory, Department Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia. michael.nastasie@monash.edu.
Helmut ThissenCSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies, Bayview Avenue, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia. michael.nastasie@monash.edu.
David A JansNuclear Signalling Laboratory, Department Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia. David.Jans@monash.edu.
Kylie M WagstaffNuclear Signalling Laboratory, Department Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia. kylie.wagstaff@monash.edu.
Monash University · AUCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · AU

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThere is an urgent need for new approaches to deliver bioactive molecules to cancer cells efficiently and specifically.

methodsHere we fuse the cancer cell nuclear targeting module of the Chicken Anaemia Virus Apoptin protein to the core histones H2B and H3 and utilise them in transfection, protein transduction and DNA binding assays.

resultsWe found subsequent nuclear accumulation of these proteins to be 2-3 fold higher in tumour compared to normal cells in transfected isogenic human osteosarcoma and breast tumour progression models. This represents the first demonstration of enhanced nuclear targeting by Apoptin in a tumour progression model, and its functionality in a heterologous protein context. Excitingly, we found that the innate transduction ability of histones could be exploited in combination with the Apoptin nuclear targeting module to effect an overall 13-fold higher delivery of protein to osteosarcoma cancer cell nuclei compared to their isogenic normal counterparts.

conclusionsThis is the first report of cancer-cell specificity by a cell penetrating protein, with important implications for the use of protein transduction as a vehicle for gene/drug delivery in the future, and in particular in the development of highly specific and effective anti-cancer agents.

Indexed as

Bone NeoplasmsBreast NeoplasmsCapsid ProteinsCell Line, TumorCell NucleusDisease ProgressionFemaleHistonesHumansModels, BiologicalOrgan SpecificityOsteosarcomaRecombinant Fusion ProteinsTransfectionCapsid ProteinsHistonesRecombinant Fusion ProteinsVP3 protein, Chicken anemia virus

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PMID25885577
PMCPMC4342815
OpenAlexW2071105218

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