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ArticleEuropean journal of pharmacology2020

In vitro benchmarking of NF-κB inhibitors.

Alexandria P Harrold, Megan M Cleary, Narendra Bharathy, Melvin Lathara, Noah E Berlow, Nicholas K Foreman, Andrew M Donson, Vladimir Amani, William J Zuercher, Charles Keller

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Article in European journal of pharmacology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 40% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Alexandria P HarroldChildren's Cancer Therapy Development Institute, Beaverton, OR, 97005, USA.
Megan M ClearyChildren's Cancer Therapy Development Institute, Beaverton, OR, 97005, USA.
Narendra BharathyChildren's Cancer Therapy Development Institute, Beaverton, OR, 97005, USA.
Melvin LatharaOmics Data Automation, Beaverton, OR, 97005, USA.
Noah E BerlowChildren's Cancer Therapy Development Institute, Beaverton, OR, 97005, USA.
Nicholas K ForemanDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.
Andrew M DonsonDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.
Vladimir AmaniDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.
William J ZuercherStructural Genomics Consortium, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, SGC Center for Chemical Biology, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA; Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
Charles KellerChildren's Cancer Therapy Development Institute, Beaverton, OR, 97005, USA. Electronic address: charles@cc-tdi.org.
Children's Cancer Therapy Development Institute · USUniversity of Colorado Denver · USAutomatic Data Processing (United States) · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

XENOGRAFT AND CELL LINE COREP01CA165995 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI LONDON, CHERYL A · 2013 to 2017
$7.9M
Cytokine- and Satellite Cell-mediated Muscle Disease PromotionR01CA189299 · NCI · CHILDREN'S CANCER THERAPY DEVELOP/INST · PI KELLER, CHARLES · 2015 to 2019
$1.7M
Elucidating the role of NF-kB signaling in rhabdomyocarcomaR01CA143082 · NCI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI GUTTRIDGE, DENIS C, KELLER, CHARLES · 2011 to 2015
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA165995NCI NIH HHS R01 CA143082NCI NIH HHS R01 CA189299
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dysregulated activity of the transcription factors of the nuclear factor κb (NF-κB) family has been implicated in numerous cancer types, inflammatory diseases, autoimmune disease, and other disorders. As such, selective NF-κB pathway inhibition is an attractive target to researchers for preclinical and clinical drug development. A plethora of commercially and clinically available inhibitors claim to be NF-κB specific; however, such claims of specificity are rarely quantitative or benchmarked, making the biomedical literature difficult to contextualize. This imprecision is worsened because some NF-κB reporter systems have low signal-to-noise ratios. Herein, we use a robust, defined, commercially available reporter system to benchmark NF-κB agonists and antagonists for the field. We also functionally characterize a RELA fusion-positive ependymoma cell culture with validated NF-κB inhibitor compounds.

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BenchmarkingCell FusionCell Line, TumorCell SurvivalEpendymomaHEK293 CellsHumansIn Vitro TechniquesNF-kappa BReproducibility of ResultsSignal-To-Noise RatioNF-kappa BEpendymomaNF-κBRELA

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PMID32014486
PMCPMC8867604
OpenAlexW3004207137

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