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ArticleAmerican journal of cancer research2017

Targeting MYC sensitizes malignant mesothelioma cells to PAK blockage-induced cytotoxicity.

Yinfei Tan, Eleonora Sementino, Jonathan Chernoff, Joseph R Testa

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Article in American journal of cancer research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Targeting Rho GTPase Signaling Networks in Cancer.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2020
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  7. Antagonists of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) inhibit the growth of human malignant pleural mesothelioma.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  9. Progress in the Management of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma in 2017.Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer · 2018
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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.

Yinfei TanCancer Biology Program, Fox Chase Cancer CenterPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Eleonora SementinoCancer Biology Program, Fox Chase Cancer CenterPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Jonathan ChernoffCancer Biology Program, Fox Chase Cancer CenterPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Joseph R TestaCancer Biology Program, Fox Chase Cancer CenterPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Fox Chase Cancer Center · US

Funding

WORD PROCESSING CENTER--COREP30CA006927 · NCI · RESEARCH INST OF FOX CHASE CAN CTR · PI Dietmar J Kappes · 1985 to 2026
$138.8M
Translational Research Support CoreP30ES013508 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Trevor M Penning · 2006 to 2026
$35.3M
The Role of p21-Activated Kinases in Malignant MesotheliomaR01CA148805 · NCI · RESEARCH INST OF FOX CHASE CAN CTR · PI CHERNOFF, JONATHAN, TESTA, JOSEPH R. · 2011 to 2020
$4.0M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA006927NCI NIH HHS R01 CA148805NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES013508
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinical management of malignant mesothelioma (MM) is very challenging due to marked resistance of this tumor to chemotherapy. Various mechanisms lead to a less than ideal drug concentration inside of MM cells, diminishing cytotoxicity. Consequently, single cytotoxic drugs achieve very modest response rates in MM patients, and combination regimens using standard and novel therapies have achieved only limited improvement in overall survival. Here, we demonstrate that MYC has either proliferative or pro-survival effects in MM cells during normal or stressed conditions, respectively. A MYC inhibitor 10058-F4 reduced MM cell proliferation via down regulation of cyclin D. Under serum starvation conditions, MM cells became quiescent, and the addition of MYC inhibitors triggered apoptosis in the resting MM cells. We also found that high concentrations of the PAK inhibitor PF3758309 killed MM cells, but the drug had only cytostatic effects at lower concentrations. These quiescent cells underwent apoptosis upon pharmacological inhibition of MYC. A novel MYC inhibitor KJ-Pyr-9 and a newer PAK inhibitor, FRAX597, also demonstrated marked cytotoxic cooperativity. Collectively, these findings demonstrate that targeting of MYC can sensitize MM cells and provide rationale for inhibition of MYC and PAK as a novel combinatory regimen for the treatment of this otherwise therapy-resistant, clinically incurable malignancy.

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apoptosiscytostasisMesotheliomaMYCPAK

Identifiers

PMID28861328
PMCPMC5574944
OpenAlexW2982487575

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