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ArticleCancers2020

Benefits of Combined All-Trans Retinoic Acid and Arsenic Trioxide Treatment of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia Cells and Further Enhancement by Inhibition of Atypically Expressed Transglutaminase 2.

Károly Jambrovics, Iván P Uray, Jeffrey W Keillor, László Fésüs, Zoltán Balajthy

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Article in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Károly JambrovicsDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary.
Iván P UrayDepartment of Clinical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary.
Jeffrey W KeillorDepartment of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada.
László FésüsDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary.
Zoltán BalajthyDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary.
University of Debrecen · HUUniversity of Ottawa · CA

Funding

MolMedEx TUMORDNS GINOP-2.3.2-15-2016-00020 | 2.3.2-15-2016-00020Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 05893Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovaciós Alap K129218Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovaciós Alap NKFI129139K
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Randomized trials in acute promyelocytic leukemia patients have shown that treatment with a combination of all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and arsenic trioxide (ATO) is superior in efficacy to monotherapy, with significantly decreased mortality. So far, there are little data available to explain the success of the ATRA and ATO combination treatment in molecular terms. We showed that ATRA- and ATO-treated cells had the same capacity for superoxide production, which was reduced by two-thirds in the combined treatment. Secreted inflammatory biomarkers (monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 [MCP-1], interleukin-1 beta [IL-1β] and tumor necrosis factor-α [TNF-α]) were significantly decreased and were further reduced in a transglutaminase 2 (TG2) expression-dependent manner. The amount of secreted TNF-α in the supernatant of NB4 TG2 knockout cells was close to 50 times lower than in ATRA-treated differentiated wild-type NB4 cells. The irreversible inhibitor of TG2 NC9 not only decreased reactive oxygen species production 28-fold, but decreased the concentration of MCP-1, IL-1β and TNF-α 8-, 15- and 61-fold, respectively in the combined ATRA + ATO-treated wild-type NB4 cell culture. We propose that atypical expression of TG2 leads to the generation of inflammation, which thereby serves as a potential target for the prevention of differentiation syndrome.

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acute promyelocytic leukemiaall-trans retinoic acid (ATRA)arsenic trioxide (ATO), ATRA and ATO combination treatmentNB4

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PMID32168763
PMCPMC7139906
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