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ArticleEBioMedicine2017

CPSF6 is a Clinically Relevant Breast Cancer Vulnerability Target: Role of CPSF6 in Breast Cancer.

Najat Binothman, Ibrahim Y Hachim, Jean-Jacques Lebrun, Suhad Ali

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Article in EBioMedicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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35citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 63 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Najat BinothmanDepartment of Medicine, Cancer Research Program, Centre for Translational Biology, McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Canada. Electronic address: Najat.Binothman@mail.mcgill.ca.
Ibrahim Y HachimDepartment of Medicine, Cancer Research Program, Centre for Translational Biology, McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Canada. Electronic address: ibrahim.hachim@mail.mcgill.ca.
Jean-Jacques LebrunDepartment of Medicine, Cancer Research Program, Centre for Translational Biology, McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Canada. Electronic address: jj.lebrun@mcgill.ca.
Suhad AliDepartment of Medicine, Cancer Research Program, Centre for Translational Biology, McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Canada. Electronic address: suhad.ali@mcgill.ca.
McGill University Health Centre · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breast cancer represents a major health challenge. The majority of breast cancer deaths are due to cancer progression/recurrence for which no efficient therapies exist. Aggressive breast cancers are characterized by loss of cellular differentiation. Defining molecular mechanisms/targets contributing to cancer aggressiveness is needed to guide the design of new screening and targeted treatments. Here, we describe a novel tumor promoting function for the Cleavage and Polyadenylation Factor-6 (CPSF6). Importantly, aggressive breast cancer cells of luminal B, HER2-overexpressing and triple negative subtypes show dependency on CPSF6 for viability and tumorigenic capacity. Mechanistically, we found CPSF6 to interact with components of the A-to-I RNA editing machinery, paraspeckles and ADAR1 enzyme, and to be required for their physical integrity. Clinically, we found CPSF6 and all core paraspeckles proteins to be overexpressed in human breast cancer cases and their expression to correlate with poor patient outcomes. Finally, we found prolactin, a key mammary differentiation factor, to suppress CPSF6/RNA editing activity. Together, this study revealed CPSF6 as a molecular target with clinical relevance for prognosis and therapy in breast cancer.

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Adenosine DeaminaseAnimalsBiomarkersBreast NeoplasmsCell Line, TumorCell SurvivalCell Transformation, NeoplasticDisease Models, AnimalDisease ProgressionFemaleGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGene Knockdown TechniquesHeterograftsHumansImmunohistochemistryADAR protein, humanAdenosine DeaminaseBiomarkerscleavage factor Im, humanmRNA Cleavage and Polyadenylation FactorsProlactinRNA-Binding ProteinsA-to-I RNA editingDifferentiationLong non-coding RNAMammaryParaspecklesProlactin

Identifiers

PMID28673861
PMCPMC5514498
OpenAlexW2669810548

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