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ReviewCancers2020

RASSF1A Tumour Suppressor: Target the Network for Effective Cancer Therapy.

Lucía García-Gutiérrez, Stephanie McKenna, Walter Kolch, David Matallanas

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Review in Cancers, 2020. 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.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
35citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. RASSF1A and its epigenetic dysregulation in genitourinary cancer: a current update.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  11. Genetic Variants inGenes · 2025
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  17. Expression ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  19. [Research Progress of DNA Methylation in Cisplatin Resistance in Lung Cancer].Zhongguo fei ai za zhi = Chinese journal of lung cancer · 2023
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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lucía García-GutiérrezSystems Biology Ireland, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Stephanie McKennaSystems Biology Ireland, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-9627-1416
Walter KolchSystems Biology Ireland, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0001-5777-5016
David MatallanasSystems Biology Ireland, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-2360-3141
University College Dublin · IE

Funding

Science Foundation Ireland 14/IA/2395Science Foundation Ireland 15/CDA/3495
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The RASSF1A tumour suppressor is a scaffold protein that is involved in cell signalling. Increasing evidence shows that this protein sits at the crossroad of a complex signalling network, which includes key regulators of cellular homeostasis, such as Ras, MST2/Hippo, p53, and death receptor pathways. The loss of expression of RASSF1A is one of the most common events in solid tumours and is usually caused by gene silencing through DNA methylation. Thus, re-expression of RASSF1A or therapeutic targeting of effector modules of its complex signalling network, is a promising avenue for treating several tumour types. Here, we review the main modules of the RASSF1A signalling network and the evidence for the effects of network deregulation in different cancer types. In particular, we summarise the epigenetic mechanism that mediates RASSF1A promoter methylation and the Hippo and RAF1 signalling modules. Finally, we discuss different strategies that are described for re-establishing RASSF1A function and how a multitargeting pathway approach selecting druggable nodes in this network could lead to new cancer treatments.

Indexed as

apoptosis and Hippo pathwaycancerDNMTPRASSF1Atherapytumour suppressor

Identifiers

PMID31963420
PMCPMC7017281
OpenAlexW3000401679

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