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ArticleOncotarget2015

The vacuolar H+ ATPase is a novel therapeutic target for glioblastoma.

Andrea Di Cristofori, Stefano Ferrero, Irene Bertolini, Gabriella Gaudioso, Maria Veronica Russo, Valeria Berno, Marco Vanini, Marco Locatelli, Mario Zavanone, Paolo Rampini and 3 more

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Article in Oncotarget, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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45citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Andrea Di CristoforiDepartment of Pathophysiology and Organ Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Stefano FerreroDivision of Pathology, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
Irene BertoliniDepartment of Pathophysiology and Organ Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Gabriella GaudiosoDepartment of Pathophysiology and Organ Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Maria Veronica RussoDepartment of Pathophysiology and Organ Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Valeria BernoIstituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare "Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi", Milan, Italy.
Marco VaniniSurgical Pathology Unit, St. Anna Hospital, Como, Italy.
Marco LocatelliDivision of Neurosurgery, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
Mario ZavanoneDepartment of Pathophysiology and Organ Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Paolo RampiniDivision of Neurosurgery, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
Thomas VaccariIFOM - The FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy.
Manuela CaroliDivision of Neurosurgery, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
Valentina VairaDivision of Pathology, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico · ITUniversity of Milan · ITFIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology · ITIstituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare · ITOspedale Sant'Anna · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The vacuolar H+ ATPase (V-ATPase) is a proton pump responsible for acidification of cellular microenvironments, an activity exploited by tumors to survive, proliferate and resist to therapy. Despite few observations, the role of V-ATPase in human tumorigenesis remains unclear.We investigated the expression of ATP6V0C, ATP6V0A2, encoding two subunits belonging to the V-ATPase V0 sector and ATP6V1C, ATP6V1G1, ATPT6V1G2, ATP6V1G3, which are part of the V1 sector, in series of adult gliomas and in cancer stem cell-enriched neurospheres isolated from glioblastoma (GBM) patients. ATP6V1G1 expression resulted significantly upregulated in tissues of patients with GBM and correlated with shorter patients' overall survival independent of clinical variables.ATP6V1G1 knockdown in GBM neurospheres hampered sphere-forming ability, induced cell death, and decreased matrix invasion, a phenotype not observed in GBM monolayer cultures. Treating GBM organotypic cultures or neurospheres with the selective V-ATPase inhibitor bafilomycin A1 reproduced the effects of ATP6V1G1 siRNA and strongly suppressed expression of the stem cell markers Nestin, CD133 and transcription factors SALL2 and POU3F2 in neurospheres.These data point to ATP6V1G1 as a novel marker of poor prognosis in GBM patients and identify V-ATPase inhibition as an innovative therapeutic strategy for GBM.

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AdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overBrain NeoplasmsCell MovementCell SurvivalFemaleFluorescent Antibody TechniqueGlioblastomaHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateMaleMiddle AgedPrognosisReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, Small InterferingVacuolar Proton-Translocating ATPasesbafilomycin A1cancer stem cellsglioblastomaorganotypic tissue culturesvacuolar H+-ATPase

Identifiers

PMID26020805
PMCPMC4627325
OpenAlexW1520761649

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