Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31817106›Full record

ArticleCancers2019

JAK2 Inhibition Impairs Proliferation and Sensitises Cervical Cancer Cells to Cisplatin-Induced Cell Death.

Ethan L Morgan, Andrew Macdonald

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Cancers, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
43citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

43 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. [Therapeutic mechanism of hederagenin, an active component inNan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University · 2025
    Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Navigating the Molecular Signaling: Deciphering Cancer Stem Cell Self-Renewal Pathways.International journal of molecular and cellular medicine · 2025
    Review
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Review
  15. Article
  16. Review
  17. Article
  18. Article
  19. Article
  20. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ethan L MorganSchool of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6487-5450
Andrew MacdonaldSchool of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5978-4693
University of Leeds · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/K012665Medical Research Council MR/K012665/1Medical Research Council MR/S001697/1Wellcome Trust 1052221/Z/14/ZWellcome Trust 204825/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Persistent infection with high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) is the underlying cause of ~5% of all human cancers, including the majority of cervical carcinomas and many other ano-genital and oral cancers. A major challenge remains to identify key host targets of HPV and to reveal how they contribute to virus-mediated malignancy. The HPV E6 oncoprotein aberrantly activates the signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) transcription factor and this is achieved by a virus-driven increase in the levels of the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) in HPV positive cervical cancers cells. Crucially, STAT3 activity is essential for the proliferation and survival of cervical cancer cells, suggesting that targeting STAT3 may have therapeutic potential. Unfortunately, the development of direct STAT3 inhibitors has been problematic in the clinic due to toxicity issues identified in early stage trials. To overcome this issue, we focused on the protein Janus kinase 2 (JAK2), which phosphorylates STAT3 and is essential for STAT3 activation. Here, we demonstrate that inhibiting JAK2 reduces cell proliferation and induces apoptosis in HPV transformed cervical cancer cells. We further establish that this is due to inhibition of phosphorylation of the JAK2 substrates STAT3 and STAT5. Finally, we demonstrate that the clinically available JAK2 inhibitor Ruxolitinib synergises with cisplatin in inducing apoptosis, highlighting JAK2 as a promising therapeutic target in HPV-driven cancers.

Indexed as

cervical cancerHPVJAK2STAT3STAT5B

Identifiers

PMID31817106
PMCPMC6966458
OpenAlexW2991724444

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.