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ReviewFEBS letters2022

Expanding role of PI5P4Ks in cancer: A promising druggable target.

Gurpreet K Arora, Lavinia Palamiuc, Brooke M Emerling

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Review in FEBS letters, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
33citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gurpreet K AroraCell and Molecular Biology of Cancer Program, Sanford Burnham Prebys, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Lavinia PalamiucCell and Molecular Biology of Cancer Program, Sanford Burnham Prebys, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Brooke M EmerlingCell and Molecular Biology of Cancer Program, Sanford Burnham Prebys, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2168-4582
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute · US

Funding

Tumor Microenvironment and Cancer ImmunologyP30CA030199 · NCI · SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE · PI ELENA B PASQUALE · 1985 to 2026
$107.2M
Non-Canonical Phosphatidylinositol Kinases in Triple Negative Breast CancerR01CA237536 · NCI · SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE · PI EMERLING, BROOKE M · 2020 to 2024
$2.2M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA030199NCI NIH HHS R01 CA237536
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer cells are challenged by a myriad of microenvironmental stresses, and it is their ability to efficiently adapt to the constantly changing nutrient, energy, oxidative, and/or immune landscape that allows them to survive and proliferate. Such adaptations, however, result in distinct vulnerabilities that are attractive therapeutic targets. Phosphatidylinositol 5-phosphate 4-kinases (PI5P4Ks) are a family of druggable stress-regulated phosphoinositide kinases that become conditionally essential as a metabolic adaptation, paving the way to targeting cancer cell dependencies. Further, PI5P4Ks have a synthetic lethal interaction with the tumor suppressor p53, the loss of which is one of the most prevalent genetic drivers of malignant transformation. PI5P4K's emergence as a crucial axis in the expanding landscape of phosphoinositide signaling in cancer has already stimulated the development of specific inhibitors. Thus, a better understanding of the biology of the PI5P4Ks will allow for targeted and effective therapeutic interventions. Here, we attempt to summarize the mounting roles of the PI5P4Ks in cancer, including evidence that targeting them is a therapeutic vulnerability and promising next-in-line treatment for multiple cancer subtypes.

Indexed as

NeoplasmsAnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsHumansMolecular Targeted TherapyPhosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor)Signal TransductionTumor Suppressor Protein p53Antineoplastic AgentsPhosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor)Tumor Suppressor Protein p53cancercellular energeticslipid kinasemetabolic dependencyp53phosphoinositidesPI-4,5-P2PI-5-PPI5P4K inhibitorsPI5P4Ks (PIP4K)

Identifiers

PMID34822164
PMCPMC9154051
OpenAlexW3215099916

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