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ReviewEndocrine-related cancer2017

Cell death response to anti-mitotic drug treatment in cell culture, mouse tumor model and the clinic.

Jue Shi, Timothy J Mitchison

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Review in Endocrine-related cancer, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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43citing papers in PubMed
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

Who cites it

43 citing papers in PubMed, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Jue ShiDepartment of Physics and Department of BiologyCenter for Quantitative Systems Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China jshi@hkbu.edu.hk.
Timothy J MitchisonDepartment of Systems BiologyHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Center for Systems Biology · USHong Kong Baptist University · HK

Funding

SMART ASSAYS FOR LIGANDS TO STUDY AND TREAT CANCERP01CA078048 · NCI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI TALLARICO, JOHN A · 1998 to 2008
$16.6M
Quantitative Analysis of Cell Death Pathways in CancerP01CA139980 · NCI · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI WEISSLEDER, MD, PHD, RALPH · 2010 to 2014
$9.0M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA078048NCI NIH HHS P01 CA139980
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anti-mitotic cancer drugs include classic microtubule-targeting drugs, such as taxanes and vinca alkaloids, and the newer spindle-targeting drugs, such as inhibitors of the motor protein; Kinesin-5 (aka KSP, Eg5, KIF11); and Aurora-A, Aurora-B and Polo-like kinases. Microtubule-targeting drugs are among the first line of chemotherapies for a wide spectrum of cancers, but patient responses vary greatly. We still lack understanding of how these drugs achieve a favorable therapeutic index, and why individual patient responses vary. Spindle-targeting drugs have so far shown disappointing results in the clinic, but it is possible that certain patients could benefit if we understand their mechanism of action better. Pre-clinical data from both cell culture and mouse tumor models showed that the cell death response is the most variable point of the drug action. Hence, in this review we focus on current mechanistic understanding of the cell death response to anti-mitotics. We first draw on extensive results from cell culture studies, and then cross-examine them with the more limited data from animal tumor models and the clinic. We end by discussing how cell type variation in cell death response might be harnessed to improve anti-mitotic chemotherapy by better patient stratification, new drug combinations and identification of novel targets for drug development.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntimitotic AgentsCell DeathDisease Models, AnimalDNA DamageHumansMiceMicrotubulesNeoplasmsSpindle ApparatusTumor Cells, CulturedTumor Suppressor Protein p53Antimitotic AgentsTumor Suppressor Protein p53apoptosischemotherapy

Identifiers

PMID28249963
PMCPMC5557680
OpenAlexW2592682092

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