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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2019

Accumulation of Nucleolar Inorganic Polyphosphate Is a Cellular Response to Cisplatin-Induced Apoptosis.

Lihan Xie, Asavari Rajpurkar, Ellen Quarles, Nicole Taube, Akash S Rai, Jake Erba, Benjamin Sliwinski, Moses Markowitz, Ursula Jakob, Daniela Knoefler

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. The inositol pyrophosphate 5-InsPThe Journal of biological chemistry · 2026
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  8. Polyphosphate: a cellular Swiss army knife.Current opinion in biotechnology · 2025
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  11. The Protein Scaffolding Functions of Polyphosphate.Journal of molecular biology · 2024
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  13. Gallein and isoniazid act synergistically to attenuatebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  16. Reentrant DNA shells tune polyphosphate condensate size.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lihan XieDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
Asavari RajpurkarDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
Ellen QuarlesDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
Nicole TaubeJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Akash S RaiDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
Jake ErbaDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
Benjamin SliwinskiDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
Moses MarkowitzDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
Ursula JakobDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
Daniela KnoeflerDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor · USJohns Hopkins University · US

Funding

Research Training in BiogerontologyT32AG000114 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI SCOTT PLETCHER · 1985 to 2026
$12.4M
Role of Molecular Chaperones in Stress Response and DiseaseR35GM122506 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Ursula H. Jakob · 2017 to 2026
$6.8M
Investigation of developmental peroxide generation as an important lifespan-deterR21AG046799 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI JAKOB, URSULA H. · 2014 to 2015
$421k
NIA NIH HHS R21 AG046799NIA NIH HHS T32 AG000114NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM122506
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The chemotherapeutic drug cisplatin, which targets DNA, serves as one of the main staples in cancer treatment. Yet, the therapeutic application of cisplatin is limited by two major challenges: the occurrence of reversible and irreversible side effects due to non-specific toxicity, and the intrinsic or developing resistance of tumor cells toward cisplatin. Here we demonstrate that cancer cells respond to cisplatin treatment with the nucleolar accumulation of inorganic polyphosphate (polyP), a universally conserved high-energy compound. PolyP accumulation positively correlates with the levels of activated caspase-3, suggesting a novel role of polyP in cisplatin-mediated apoptosis. In support of this finding, we discovered that administration of exogenous polyP increases cisplatin-induced toxicity in select cancer cell lines, raising the exciting possibility that enhancing endogenous polyP levels might be a novel mechanism to sensitize cancer cells to cisplatin treatment.

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apoptosiscaspasescisplatinnucleoluspolyphosphateresistance

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PMID31921667
PMCPMC6920253
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