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ReviewMolecular cancer therapeutics2017

The Role of CtBP1 in Oncogenic Processes and Its Potential as a Therapeutic Target.

Melanie A Blevins, Mingxia Huang, Rui Zhao

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Review in Molecular cancer therapeutics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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61citing papers in PubMed
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 135 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Melanie A BlevinsDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
Mingxia HuangDepartment of Dermatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado. rui.zhao@ucdenver.edu mingxia.huang@ucdenver.edu.
Rui ZhaoDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado. rui.zhao@ucdenver.edu mingxia.huang@ucdenver.edu.
University of Colorado Denver · US

Funding

Training in Translational Research of Lung, Head and Neck CancerT32CA174648 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI KARAM, SANA D · 2013 to 2022
$4.2M
Developing cancer therapies through targeting the Six1/Eya transcriptional complexR21CA185752 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI FORD, HEIDE L., ZHAO, RUI · 2015 to 2016
$372k
Identify Inhibitors of the Transcriptional Co-Repressor CtBP Using HTS for CancerR03DA033982 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI ZHANG, QINGHONG, ZHAO, RUI · 2012 to 2013
$76k
The Role of CtBP1 in UV-mediated Melanoma CarcinogenesisI01BX002370 · VA · VA EASTERN COLORADO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM · PI NORRIS, DAVID A. · 2014 to 2017
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BLRD VA I01 BX002370NCI NIH HHS R21 CA185752NCI NIH HHS T32 CA174648NIDA NIH HHS R03 DA033982
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transcriptional corepressor proteins have emerged as an important facet of cancer etiology. These corepressor proteins are often altered by loss- or gain-of-function mutations, leading to transcriptional imbalance. Thus, research directed at expanding our current understanding of transcriptional corepressors could impact the future development of new cancer diagnostics, prognostics, and therapies. In this review, our current understanding of the CtBP corepressors, and their role in both development and disease, is discussed in detail. Importantly, the role of CtBP1 overexpression in adult tissues in promoting the progression of multiple cancer types through their ability to modulate the transcription of developmental genes ectopically is explored. CtBP1 overexpression is known to be protumorigenic and affects the regulation of gene networks associated with "cancer hallmarks" and malignant behavior, including increased cell survival, proliferation, migration, invasion, and the epithelial-mesenchymal transition. As a transcriptional regulator of broad developmental processes capable of promoting malignant growth in adult tissues, therapeutically targeting the CtBP1 corepressor has the potential to be an effective method for the treatment of diverse tumor types. Although efforts to develop CtBP1 inhibitors are still in the early stages, the current progress and the future perspectives of therapeutically targeting this transcriptional corepressor are also discussed.

Indexed as

Alcohol OxidoreductasesAnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsCarrier ProteinsCell Transformation, NeoplasticDNA-Binding ProteinsGene Expression RegulationHumansMolecular Targeted TherapyMultiprotein ComplexesNeoplasmsProtein BindingRepressor ProteinsSignal TransductionStructure-Activity RelationshipAlcohol OxidoreductasesAntineoplastic AgentsCarrier ProteinsC-terminal binding proteinDNA-Binding ProteinsMultiprotein ComplexesRepressor Proteins

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PMID28576945
PMCPMC5458631
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