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ArticleOncotarget2021

Targeting super-enhancers reprograms glioblastoma central carbon metabolism.

Trang T T Nguyen, Mike-Andrew Westhoff, Georg Karpel-Massler, Markus D Siegelin

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Article in Oncotarget, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 50% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Trang T T NguyenDepartment of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Mike-Andrew WesthoffDepartment of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm, Germany.
Georg Karpel-MasslerDepartment of Neurosurgery, Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm, Germany.
Markus D SiegelinDepartment of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Columbia University Irving Medical Center · USUniversität Ulm · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The concept that tumor cells demand a distinct form of metabolism was appreciated almost a century ago when the German biochemist Otto Warburg realized that tumor cells heavily utilize glucose and produce lactic acid while relatively reducing oxidative metabolism. How this phenomenon is orchestrated and regulated is only partially understood and seems to involve certain transcription factors, including c-Myc, HIF1A and others. The epigenome eintails the posttranslational modification of histone proteins which in turn are involved in regulation of transcription. Recently, it was found that cis-regulatory elements appear to facilitate the Warburg effects since several genes encoding for glycolysis and associated pathways are surrounded by enhancer/super-enhancer regions. Disruption of these regions by FDA-approved HDAC inhibitors suppressed the transcription of these genes and elicited a reversal of the Warburg effect with activation of transcription factors facilitating oxidative energy metabolism with increases in transcription factors that are part of the PPARA family. Therefore, combined targeting of HDACs and oxidative metabolism suppressed tumor growth in patient-derived xenograft models of solid tumors, including glioblastoma.

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c-Mycfatty acid oxidationglioblastomaHDAC-inhibitormetabolism

Identifiers

PMID34194627
PMCPMC8238252
OpenAlexW3175236409

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