Evidence mapPaperPMID 36978147Full record

ReviewJournal of hematology & oncology2023

APOBEC3-mediated mutagenesis in cancer: causes, clinical significance and therapeutic potential.

Kelly Butler, A Rouf Banday

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Review in Journal of hematology & oncology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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47citing papers in PubMed
14.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

47 citing papers in PubMed, 62 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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kelly ButlerGenitourinary Malignancies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
A Rouf BandayGenitourinary Malignancies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA. rouf.banday@nih.gov.
National Cancer Institute · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Investigating mechanisms of bladder tumorigenesis and therapeutic resistanceZIABC012091 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI BANDAY, ABDUL · 2022 to 2025
$5.5M
NIH HHS Intramural
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptides (APOBECs) are cytosine deaminases involved in innate and adaptive immunity. However, some APOBEC family members can also deaminate host genomes to generate oncogenic mutations. The resulting mutations, primarily signatures 2 and 13, occur in many tumor types and are among the most common mutational signatures in cancer. This review summarizes the current evidence implicating APOBEC3s as major mutators and outlines the exogenous and endogenous triggers of APOBEC3 expression and mutational activity. The review also discusses how APOBEC3-mediated mutagenesis impacts tumor evolution through both mutagenic and non-mutagenic pathways, including by inducing driver mutations and modulating the tumor immune microenvironment. Moving from molecular biology to clinical outcomes, the review concludes by summarizing the divergent prognostic significance of APOBEC3s across cancer types and their therapeutic potential in the current and future clinical landscapes.

Indexed as

Clinical RelevanceNeoplasmsAPOBEC DeaminasesCytidine DeaminaseHumansMutagenesisMutationPeptidesTumor MicroenvironmentAPOBEC3 proteins, humanAPOBEC DeaminasesCytidine DeaminasePeptidesAPOBECsBiomarkersCancerGermline geneticsImmunotherapySomatic mutationsTumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID36978147
PMCPMC10044795
OpenAlexW4361214692

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