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ArticleCancers2022

Phosphorylation-Mediated Activation of β-Catenin-TCF4-CEGRs/ALCDs Pathway Is an Essential Event in Development of Aggressive Hepatoblastoma.

Ruhi Gulati, Margaret A Hanlon, Maggie Lutz, Tyler Quitmeyer, James Geller, Gregory Tiao, Lubov Timchenko, Nikolai Timchenko

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Article in Cancers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ruhi GulatiDivision of General and Thoracic Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6194-9805
Margaret A HanlonDivision of General and Thoracic Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3469-2474
Maggie LutzDepartment of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA.
Tyler QuitmeyerDivision of General and Thoracic Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA.
James GellerDepartment of Oncology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA.
Gregory TiaoDivision of General and Thoracic Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA.
Lubov TimchenkoDepartment of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA.
Nikolai TimchenkoDivision of General and Thoracic Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center · US

Funding

Stem Cell/Organoid and Genome Editing CoreP30DK078392 · NIDDK · CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR · PI LEE ARMISTEAD DENSON · 2007 to 2026
$24.4M
NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK078392
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND

aimsHepatoblastoma (HBL), a deadly malignancy in children, is the most common type of pediatric liver cancer. We recently demonstrated that β-catenin, phosphorylated at S675 (ph-S675-β-catenin), causes pathological alterations in fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma (FLC), by activating oncogenes and fibrotic genes via human genomic regions, known as cancer-enhancing genomic regions or aggressive liver cancer domains (CEGRs/ALCDs). The aim of this study was to determine the role of the ph-S675-β-catenin-TCF4-CEGRs/ALCDs pathway in HBL.

methodsThe ph-S675-β-catenin-TCF4-CEGRs/ALCDs pathway was examined in a large cohort of HBL specimens, in HBL cell lines HepG2 and Huh6, and in patient-derived xenografts (PDXs).

resultsβ-catenin is phosphorylated at S675 in a large portion of tested HBL patients. In these patients, ph-S675-β-catenin forms complexes with TCF4 and opens CEGRs/ALCDs-dependent oncogenes for transcription, leading to a massive overexpression of the oncogenes. The inhibition of the β-catenin-TCF4-CEGRs/ALCDs axis inhibits the proliferation of cancer cells and tumor growth in HBL cell lines and HBL-PDXs. The ph-S675-β-catenin is abundant in mitotic cells. We found that markers of HBL Glypican 3 (

conclusionsThe phosphorylation-mediated activation of the β-catenin-TCF4-p300-CEGRs/ALCDs pathway increases oncogene expression in patients with aggressive liver cancer and promotes the development of hepatoblastoma.

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epigeneticshepatoblastomaliver cancerβ-catenin

Identifiers

PMID36551548
PMCPMC9775972
OpenAlexW4311995289

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