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ReviewTrends in cancer2023

Onco-condensates: formation, multi-component organization, and biological functions.

Chenxi Xu, Arum Kim, Joshua M Corbin, Gang Greg Wang

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Review in Trends in cancer, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 25 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 1 institution in 1 country.

Chenxi XuLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Arum KimLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Joshua M CorbinLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Gang Greg WangLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Electronic address: greg_wang@med.unc.edu.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Discovery of First-in-class WDR5 PROTACs as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy for MLL-rearranged LeukemiasR01CA268384 · NCI · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI Jian Jin, G Greg Wang · 2022 to 2026
$3.9M
Dissecting and targeting canonical and non-canonical oncogenic functions of EZH2 in canerR01CA268519 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Jian Jin, G Greg Wang · 2022 to 2026
$3.2M
The role for phase separation in oncogenesis and aberrant chromatin looping formationR01CA271603 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Douglas H. Phanstiel, G Greg Wang · 2022 to 2026
$2.9M
Targeting histone methyltransferase EZH2 for the treatment of hematological cancerF32CA261118 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI KIM, A-RUM · 2022 to 2025
$236k
NCI NIH HHS F32 CA261118NCI NIH HHS R01 CA268384NCI NIH HHS R01 CA268519NCI NIH HHS R01 CA271603
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Numerous cellular processes occur in the context of condensates, a type of large, membrane-less biomolecular assembly generated through phase separation. These condensates function as a hub of diversified cellular events by concentrating the required components. Cancer frequently coopts biomolecular condensation mechanisms to promote survival and/or proliferation. Onco-condensates, which refer to those that have causal roles or are critically involved in tumorigenicity, operate to abnormally elevate biological output of a proliferative process, or to suppress a tumor-suppressive pathway, thereby promoting oncogenesis. Here, we summarize advances regarding how multi-component onco-condensates are established and organized to promote oncogenesis, with those related to chromatin and transcription deregulation used as showcases. A better understanding should enable development of new means of targeting onco-condensates as potential therapeutics.

Indexed as

CarcinogenesisCell Transformation, NeoplasticChromatinHumansChromatinbiomolecular condensationcancerdiseaseintrinsically disordered region (IDR)onco-condensatephase separationsmall moleculetherapeutic

Identifiers

PMID37349246
PMCPMC10524369
OpenAlexW4381333494

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