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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Stress granule-associated protein G3BP2 regulates breast tumor initiation.

Nisha Gupta, Mark Badeaux, Yiqian Liu, Kamila Naxerova, Dennis Sgroi, Lance L Munn, Rakesh K Jain, Igor Garkavtsev

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers.

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65citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

65 citing papers in PubMed, 105 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Nisha GuptaEdwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114.
Mark BadeauxEdwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114.
Yiqian LiuDepartment of Oncology, Jiangsu Province Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, China.
Kamila NaxerovaEdwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114.
Dennis SgroiDepartment of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114.
Lance L MunnEdwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114.
Rakesh K JainEdwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114.
Igor GarkavtsevEdwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114; igorg@steele.mgh.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · USMassachusetts General Hospital · USJiangsu Province Hospital · CN

Funding

Targeting glycocalyx-mediated mechanisms of tumor metastasisR01CA204949 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MUNN, LANCE L., TARBELL, JOHN M · 2017 to 2021
$2.3M
Evaluation of TNBC treatment strategy utilizing novel signaling pathwaysR21CA169616 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI GARKAVTSEV, IGOR · 2013 to 2014
$404k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA204949NCI NIH HHS R21 CA169616
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breast tumors contain tumorigenic cancer cells, termed "tumor-initiating cells" (TICs), which are capable of both replenishing themselves and giving rise to populations of nontumorigenic breast cancer cells (non-TICs). However, the molecular mechanisms responsible for breast tumor initiation remain poorly understood. Here we describe a chemical screening strategy to identify small molecules that enhance the effect of chemotherapeutic agents on TIC-enriched breast cancer cells. We identified proteins that interact with the lead compound C108, including the stress granule-associated protein, GTPase-activating protein (SH3 domain)-binding protein 2, G3BP2. G3BP2 regulates breast tumor initiation through the stabilization of Squamous cell carcinoma antigen recognized by T cells 3 (SART3) mRNA, which leads to increased expression of the pluripotency transcription factors Octamer-binding protein 4 (Oct-4) and Nanog Homeobox (Nanog). Our findings suggest that G3BP2 is important for the process of breast cancer initiation. Furthermore, these data suggest a possible connection between stress granule formation and tumor initiation in breast cancer cells.

Indexed as

CarcinogenesisAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAnimalsAntigens, NeoplasmAntineoplastic AgentsBreast NeoplasmsCarrier ProteinsCell Line, TumorCytoplasmic GranulesDrug Resistance, NeoplasmDrug Screening Assays, AntitumorFemaleGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHeterograftsHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAntigens, NeoplasmAntineoplastic AgentsCarrier ProteinsG3BP2 protein, humanNanog Homeobox ProteinNANOG protein, humanNeoplasm ProteinsOctamer Transcription Factor-3PaclitaxelPOU5F1 protein, humanRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, MessengerRNA, NeoplasmRNA, Small InterferingSART3 protein, humanSmall Molecule Librariesbreast cancerG3BP2stress granuletumor-initiating cells

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PMID28096337
PMCPMC5293063
OpenAlexW2579515566

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