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ArticlePharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2017

Targeting Protein Kinase CK2: Evaluating CX-4945 Potential for GL261 Glioblastoma Therapy in Immunocompetent Mice.

Laura Ferrer-Font, Lucia Villamañan, Nuria Arias-Ramos, Jordi Vilardell, Maria Plana, Maria Ruzzene, Lorenzo A Pinna, Emilio Itarte, Carles Arús, Ana Paula Candiota

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Article in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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27 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Laura Ferrer-FontDepartament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Unitat de Bioquímica de Biociències, Edifici C, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Spain. Laura.Ferrer@uab.cat.
Lucia VillamañanDepartament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Unitat de Bioquímica de Biociències, Edifici C, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Spain. Lucia.Villamanan@uab.cat.
Nuria Arias-RamosDepartament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Unitat de Bioquímica de Biociències, Edifici C, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Spain.
Jordi VilardellDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova 35131, Italy. jordivilardellvila@gmail.com.
Maria PlanaDepartament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Unitat de Bioquímica de Biociències, Edifici C, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Spain. Maria.Plana@uab.cat.
Maria RuzzeneDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova 35131, Italy. maria.ruzzene@unipd.it.
Lorenzo A PinnaDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova 35131, Italy. lorenzo.pinna@unipd.it.
Emilio ItarteDepartament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Unitat de Bioquímica de Biociències, Edifici C, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Spain. Emili.Itarte@uab.cat.
Carles ArúsDepartament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Unitat de Bioquímica de Biociències, Edifici C, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Spain. Carles.Arus@uab.es.
Ana Paula CandiotaCentro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Spain. AnaPaula.Candiota@uab.cat.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · ESUniversity of Padua · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioblastoma (GBM) causes poor survival in patients even with aggressive treatment. Temozolomide (TMZ) is the standard chemotherapeutic choice for GBM treatment but resistance always ensues. Protein kinase CK2 (CK2) contributes to tumour development and proliferation in cancer, and it is overexpressed in human GBM. Accordingly, targeting CK2 in GBM may benefit patients. Our goal has been to evaluate whether CK2 inhibitors (iCK2s) could increase survival in an immunocompetent preclinical GBM model. Cultured GL261 cells were treated with different iCK2s including CX-4945, and target effects evaluated in vitro. CX-4945 was found to decrease CK2 activity and Akt(S129) phosphorylation in GL261 cells

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CK2 inhibitorsCX-4945GBM therapeutic targetGliomaimmune systemmetronomic therapypreclinical brain tumour

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PMID28208677
PMCPMC5374428
OpenAlexW2588036983

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