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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2018

Olfactory Receptors as Biomarkers in Human Breast Carcinoma Tissues.

Lea Weber, Désirée Maßberg, Christian Becker, Janine Altmüller, Burkhard Ubrig, Gabriele Bonatz, Gerhard Wölk, Stathis Philippou, Andrea Tannapfel, Hanns Hatt and 1 more

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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54 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 82 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Lea WeberDepartment of Cell Physiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Désirée MaßbergDepartment of Cell Physiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Christian BeckerCologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Janine AltmüllerCologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Burkhard UbrigClinic for Urology, Augusta-Kranken-Anstalt Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Gabriele BonatzClinic of Gynaecology, Augusta-Kranken-Anstalt Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Gerhard WölkClinic of Gynaecology, Herz-Jesu-Krankenhaus Dernbach, Dernbach, Germany.
Stathis PhilippouDepartment of Pathology and Cytology, Augusta-Kranken-Anstalt Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Andrea TannapfelInstitute for Pathology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Hanns HattDepartment of Cell Physiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Günter GisselmannDepartment of Cell Physiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Ruhr University Bochum · DEAugusta-Kranken-Anstalt · DEUniversity of Cologne · DEStadtkrankenhaus Schwabach · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Olfactory receptors (ORs) are known to be expressed in a variety of human tissues and act on different physiological processes, such as cell migration, proliferation, or secretion and have been found to function as biomarkers for carcinoma tissues of prostate, lung, and small intestine. In this study, we analyzed the OR expression profiles of several different carcinoma tissues, with a focus on breast cancer. The expression of OR2B6 was detectable in breast carcinoma tissues; here, transcripts of OR2B6 were detected in 73% of all breast carcinoma cell lines and in over 80% of all of the breast carcinoma tissues analyzed. Interestingly, there was no expression of OR2B6 observed in healthy tissues. Immunohistochemical staining of OR2B6 in breast carcinoma tissues revealed a distinct staining pattern of carcinoma cells. Furthermore, we detected a fusion transcript containing part of the coding exon of OR2B6 as a part of a splice variant of the histone HIST1H2BO transcript. In addition, in cancer tissues and cell lines derived from lung, pancreas, and brain, OR expression patterns were compared to that of corresponding healthy tissues. The number of ORs detected in lung carcinoma tissues was significantly reduced in comparison to the surrounding healthy tissues. In pancreatic carcinoma tissues, OR4C6 was considerably more highly expressed in comparison to the respective healthy tissues. We detected OR2B6 as a potential biomarker for breast carcinoma tissues.

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biomarkerbreast carcinomanext-generation sequencingolfactory receptorsOR2B6pancreatic carcinomaRNA-Seq

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PMCPMC5818398
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