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ArticleCancer letters2020

Sustained activation of notch signaling maintains tumor-initiating cells in a murine model of liposarcoma.

Pei-Chieh Tien, Menchus Quan, Shihuan Kuang

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Article in Cancer letters, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 46% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Mechanistic insights into the lncRNA-Notch signaling axis in tumors.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026
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  5. Targeting Lipid Metabolism in Cancer Stem Cells for Anticancer Treatment.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  9. CD105: tumor diagnosis, prognostic marker and future tumor therapeutic target.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pei-Chieh TienDepartment of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
Menchus QuanDepartment of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
Shihuan KuangDepartment of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA; Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA; Center for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA. Electronic address: skuang@purdue.edu.
Purdue University West Lafayette · US

Funding

Transgenic Mouse Core Facility Shared Resource (TMCF-SR)P30CA023168 · NCI · PURDUE UNIVERSITY WEST LAFAYETTE · PI John Tesmer · 1985 to 2026
$43.4M
Notch signaling in liposarcomaR01CA212609 · NCI · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI KUANG, SHIHUAN · 2017 to 2021
$1.8M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA023168NCI NIH HHS R01 CA212609
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cells in a tumor are heterogeneous, often including a small number of tumor-initiating cells (TICs) and the majority of cancerous and non-cancerous cells. We have previously reported that constitutive activation of Notch signaling in adipocytes of mice leads to dedifferentiated liposarcoma (DDLPS), an aggressive liposarcoma (LPS) with no effective treatment. Here, we explored the role of Notch signaling in cellular heterogeneity of LPS. We performed serial transplantations to enrich for TICs, and derived cells exhibiting sustained Notch activation (mLPS1 cells) and cells with normal Notch activity (mLPS2 cells). Both mLPS1 and mLPS2 cells proliferated rapidly, and neither exhibited contact inhibition. However, only the mLPS1 cells exhibited tumorigenicity and gave rise to LPS upon engraftment into mice. The mLPS1 cells also highly expressed markers of cancer stem cells (Cd133), mesenchymal stem cells (Cd73, Cd90, Cd105, Dlk1) and the long non-coding RNA Rian. By contrast, the mLPS2 cells accumulated lipid droplets and expressed mature adipocyte markers when induced to differentiate. Most importantly, CRISPR-mediated disruption of Notch abrogated the tumorigenic properties of mLPS1 cells. These results reveal a key role of Notch signaling in maintaining TICs in LPS.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiomarkers, TumorCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansLiposarcomaMiceNeoplasm TransplantationNeoplastic Stem CellsReceptors, NotchSerial PassageSignal TransductionBiomarkers, TumorReceptors, NotchAdipose tissueCancer stem cellsClustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)DedifferentiationTransplantationTumor heterogeneity

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PMID32866607
PMCPMC7572696
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