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ArticleOncotarget2016

Prognostic significance of PLIN1 expression in human breast cancer.

Cefan Zhou, Ming Wang, Li Zhou, Yi Zhang, Weiyong Liu, Wenying Qin, Rong He, Yang Lu, Yefu Wang, Xing-Zhen Chen and 1 more

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Article in Oncotarget, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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32citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 47 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 2 countries.

Cefan ZhouInstitute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Provincial Cooperative Innovation Center, College of Bioengineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Ming WangDepartment of Clinical Laboratory, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Li ZhouAnimal Biosafety Level III Laboratory at the Center for Animal Experiment, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Yi ZhangInstitute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Provincial Cooperative Innovation Center, College of Bioengineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Weiyong LiuDepartment of Clinical Laboratory, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Wenying QinInstitute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Provincial Cooperative Innovation Center, College of Bioengineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Rong HeInstitute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Provincial Cooperative Innovation Center, College of Bioengineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Yang LuInstitute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Provincial Cooperative Innovation Center, College of Bioengineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Yefu WangThe State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Xing-Zhen ChenInstitute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Provincial Cooperative Innovation Center, College of Bioengineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Jingfeng TangInstitute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Provincial Cooperative Innovation Center, College of Bioengineering, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Hubei University of Technology · CNWuhan University · CNHuazhong University of Science and Technology · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease associated with diverse clinical, biological and molecular features, presenting huge challenges for prognosis and treatment. Here we found that perilipin-1 (PLIN1) mRNA expression is significantly downregulated in human breast cancer. Kaplan-Meier analysis indicated that patients presenting with reduced PLIN1 expression exhibited poorer overall metastatic relapse-free survival (p = 0.03). Further Cox proportional hazard models analysis revealed that the reduced expression of PLIN1 is an independent predictor of overall survival in estrogen receptor positive (p < 0.0001, HR = 0.87, 95% CI = 0.81-0.92, N = 3,600) and luminal A-subtype (p = 0.02, HR = 0.88, 95% CI = 0.78-0.98, N = 1,469) breast cancer patients. We also demonstrated that the exogenous expression of PLIN1 in human breast cancer MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 cells significantly inhibits cell proliferation, migration, invasion and in vivo tumorigenesis in mice. Together, these data provide novel insights into a prognostic significance of PLIN1 in human breast cancer and reveal a potentially new gene therapy target for breast cancer.

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AnimalsBiomarkers, TumorBreast NeoplasmsCell Line, TumorCell MovementCell ProliferationFemaleGenes, p53HumansMiceMutationNeoplasm InvasivenessPerilipin-1PrognosisProportional Hazards ModelsReceptors, EstrogenBiomarkers, TumorPerilipin-1PLIN1 protein, humanReceptors, EstrogenbiomarkerKaplan-Meier analysismeta analysisperilipin-1tumor suppressor

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PMID27359054
PMCPMC5342357
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