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ArticleCommunications biology2023

Ribonucleotide reductase subunit switching in hepatoblastoma drug response and relapse.

Anthony Brown, Qingfei Pan, Li Fan, Emilie Indersie, Cheng Tian, Nikolai Timchenko, Liyuan Li, Baranda S Hansen, Haiyan Tan, Meifen Lu and 5 more

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Article in Communications biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Anthony BrownDepartment of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4408-3998
Qingfei PanDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Li FanDepartment of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Emilie IndersieXenTech, Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0001-8974-6551
Cheng TianDepartment of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Nikolai TimchenkoDepartment of Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Liyuan LiDepartment of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Baranda S HansenDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology and Center for Advanced Genome Engineering, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2299-650X
Haiyan TanCenter for Proteomics and Metabolomics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Meifen LuCenter for Comparative Pathology Core, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Junmin PengDepartments of Structural Biology and Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0472-7648
Shondra M Pruett-MillerDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology and Center for Advanced Genome Engineering, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3793-585X
Jiyang YuDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3629-4330
Stefano CairoXenTech, Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-4725-5970
Liqin ZhuDepartment of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA. Liqin.zhu@stjude.org.ORCID 0000-0002-2346-150X
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital · USCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center · US

Funding

Intracellular and Intercellular Network Rewiring and Hidden Driver Inference from Single-Cell DataR01GM134382 · NIGMS · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI YU, JIYANG · 2019 to 2023
$1.7M
Ribonucleotide Reductase in Hepatoblastoma Progression and Drug ResistanceR21CA256464 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI ZHU, LIQIN · 2021 to 2022
$457k
NCI NIH HHS R21 CA256464NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM134382
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prognosis of children with high-risk hepatoblastoma (HB), the most common pediatric liver cancer, remains poor. In this study, we found ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) subunit M2 (RRM2) was one of the key genes supporting cell proliferation in high-risk HB. While standard chemotherapies could effectively suppress RRM2 in HB cells, they induced a significant upregulation of the other RNR M2 subunit, RRM2B. Computational analysis revealed distinct signaling networks RRM2 and RRM2B were involved in HB patient tumors, with RRM2 supporting cell proliferation and RRM2B participating heavily in stress response pathways. Indeed, RRM2B upregulation in chemotherapy-treated HB cells promoted cell survival and subsequent relapse, during which RRM2B was gradually replaced back by RRM2. Combining an RRM2 inhibitor with chemotherapy showed an effective delaying of HB tumor relapse in vivo. Overall, our study revealed the distinct roles of the two RNR M2 subunits and their dynamic switching during HB cell proliferation and stress response.

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HepatoblastomaLiver NeoplasmsCell Cycle ProteinsCell ProliferationChildChronic DiseaseHumansRecurrenceRibonucleoside Diphosphate ReductaseRibonucleotide ReductasesCell Cycle ProteinsRibonucleoside Diphosphate Reductaseribonucleotide reductase M2Ribonucleotide ReductasesRRM2B protein, human

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PMID36882565
PMCPMC9992519
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