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ArticleCell reports2015

Elevated RNA Editing Activity Is a Major Contributor to Transcriptomic Diversity in Tumors.

Nurit Paz-Yaacov, Lily Bazak, Ilana Buchumenski, Hagit T Porath, Miri Danan-Gotthold, Binyamin A Knisbacher, Eli Eisenberg, Erez Y Levanon

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Article in Cell reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 225 papers.

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225 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. Two codes of RNA editing by deamination in human diseases.Experimental & molecular medicine · 2026
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  15. ADAR-GPT: A continually fine-tuned language model for predicting A-to-I RNA editing sites.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  20. Targeting RNA adenosine editing and modification enzymes for RNA therapeutics.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Nurit Paz-YaacovThe Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel.
Lily BazakThe Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel.
Ilana BuchumenskiThe Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel.
Hagit T PorathThe Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel.
Miri Danan-GottholdThe Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel.
Binyamin A KnisbacherThe Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel.
Eli EisenbergSchool of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. Electronic address: elieis@post.tau.ac.il.
Erez Y LevanonThe Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel. Electronic address: erez.levanon@biu.ac.il.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genomic mutations in key genes are known to drive tumorigenesis and have been the focus of much attention in recent years. However, genetic content also may change farther downstream. RNA editing alters the mRNA sequence from its genomic blueprint in a dynamic and flexible way. A few isolated cases of editing alterations in cancer have been reported previously. Here, we provide a transcriptome-wide characterization of RNA editing across hundreds of cancer samples from multiple cancer tissues, and we show that A-to-I editing and the enzymes mediating this modification are significantly altered, usually elevated, in most cancer types. Increased editing activity is found to be associated with patient survival. As is the case with somatic mutations in DNA, most of these newly introduced RNA mutations are likely passengers, but a few may serve as drivers that may be novel candidates for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes.

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Gene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticRNA EditingTranscriptomeBreast NeoplasmsCarcinomaFemaleHumansKidney NeoplasmsMaleMutationProstatic NeoplasmsUp-Regulation

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