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ArticleMolecular carcinogenesis2022

Nuclear receptor 4A1 (NR4A1) antagonists target paraspeckle component 1 (PSPC1) in cancer cells.

Kumaravel Mohankumar, Rupesh Shrestha, Stephen Safe

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Article in Molecular carcinogenesis, 2022. 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
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Antigen-specific immunotherapy with a CD4Nature communications · 2026
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  3. Controversy and multiple roles of the solitary nucleus receptor Nur77 in disease and physiology.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025
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  6. Paraspeckle Component 1: a multifunctional RNA binding protein.American journal of cancer research · 2025
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  9. [Nur77 promotes invasion and migration of gastric cancer cells through the NF-κB/IL-6 pathway].Nan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University · 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.

Kumaravel MohankumarDepartment of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
Rupesh ShresthaDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
Stephen SafeDepartment of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2115-3060
Texas A&M University · US

Funding

Texas A&M Center for Environmental Health Research (TiCER)P30ES029067 · NIEHS · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY · PI Galen Newman · 2019 to 2026
$13.0M
NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES029067
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Paraspeckles compound 1 (PSPC1) is a multifunctional protein that plays an important role in cancer cells, where PSPC1 is a master regulator of pro-oncogenic responses that includes activation of TGFβ (TGFβ1), TGFβ-dependent EMT, and metastasis. The pro-oncogenic activities of PSPC1 closely resembled those observed for the orphan nuclear receptor 4A1 (NR4A1, Nur77) and knockdown of NR4A1 decreased expression of PSPC1 in MDA-MB-231 breast, H1299 lung, and SNU449 liver cancer cells. Similar results were observed in these same cell lines after treatment with bisindole-derived (CDIMs) NR4A1 antagonists. Moreover, PSPC1-dependent regulation of TGFβ, genes associated with cancer stem cells and epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) were also downregulated after NR4A1 silencing or treatment of breast, lung, and liver cancer cells with CDIM/NR4A1 antagonists. Results of chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assays suggest that NR4A1 regulates PSPC1 through interaction with an NBRE sequence in the PSPC1 gene promoter. These results coupled with in vivo studies showing that NR4A1 antagonists inhibit breast tumor growth and downregulate PSPC1 in tumors indicate that the pro-oncogenic nuclear PSPC1 factor can be targeted by CDIM/NR4A1 antagonists.

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Promoter Regions, GeneticA549 CellsAnimalsBreast NeoplasmsCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationCell SurvivalEpithelial-Mesenchymal TransitionFemaleHCT116 CellsHep G2 CellsHumansMethaneMiceNeoplasm TransplantationNeoplastic Stem CellsMethaneNR4A1 protein, humanNuclear Receptor Subfamily 4, Group A, Member 1PSPC1 protein, humanRNA-Binding ProteinsTGFB1 protein, humanTransforming Growth Factor beta1antagonistsligandsNR4A1Nur77PSPC1

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PMID34699643
PMCPMC8665050
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