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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2021

RHAMM Is a Multifunctional Protein That Regulates Cancer Progression.

Britney J Messam, Cornelia Tolg, James B McCarthy, Andrew C Nelson, Eva A Turley

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

24 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. RHAMM drives formation of polyploid cancer cells and confers resistance to ER-targeted therapy in breast cancer.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Britney J MessamDepartment of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON N6A 5C1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-2679-7789
Cornelia TolgLondon Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre, Victoria Hospital, London, ON N6A 4L6, Canada.
James B McCarthyMasonic Cancer Center, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7233-0047
Andrew C NelsonMasonic Cancer Center, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4741-0010
Eva A TurleyLondon Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre, Victoria Hospital, London, ON N6A 4L6, Canada.
Masonic Cancer CenterWestern University · CALondon Health Sciences Centre · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The functional complexity of higher organisms is not easily accounted for by the size of their genomes. Rather, complexity appears to be generated by transcriptional, translational, and post-translational mechanisms and tissue organization that produces a context-dependent response of cells to specific stimuli. One property of gene products that likely increases the ability of cells to respond to stimuli with complexity is the multifunctionality of expressed proteins. Receptor for hyaluronan-mediated motility (RHAMM) is an example of a multifunctional protein that controls differential responses of cells in response-to-injury contexts. Here, we trace its evolution into a sensor-transducer of tissue injury signals in higher organisms through the detection of hyaluronan (HA) that accumulates in injured microenvironments. Our goal is to highlight the domain and isoform structures that generate RHAMM's function complexity and model approaches for targeting its key functions to control cancer progression.

Indexed as

AnimalsDisease ProgressionExtracellular Matrix ProteinsHumansHyaluronan ReceptorsNeoplasmsTumor MicroenvironmentExtracellular Matrix Proteinshyaluronan-mediated motility receptorHyaluronan ReceptorscancerdomainsevolutionHAisoformsmulti-functionsRHAMMsignaling

Identifiers

PMID34638654
PMCPMC8508827
OpenAlexW3201930598

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