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ReviewCell death and differentiation2024

Role of Fra-2 in cancer.

Gian Luca Rampioni Vinciguerra, Marina Capece, Giorgia Scafetta, Sydney Rentsch, Andrea Vecchione, Francesca Lovat, Carlo M Croce

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Review in Cell death and differentiation, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
23citing 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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Fra-2 controls the response to the KRAS inhibitor MRTX-1133 in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Gian Luca Rampioni VinciguerraDepartment of Cancer Biology and Genetics and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0739-1668
Marina CapeceDepartment of Cancer Biology and Genetics and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7624-8059
Giorgia ScafettaDepartment of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sant'Andrea Hospital, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, 00189, Italy.
Sydney RentschDepartment of Cancer Biology and Genetics and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Andrea VecchioneDepartment of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sant'Andrea Hospital, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, 00189, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5497-6856
Francesca LovatDepartment of Cancer Biology and Genetics and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. francesca.lovat@osumc.edu.
Carlo M CroceDepartment of Cancer Biology and Genetics and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. carlo.croce@osumc.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-3788-1457
The Ohio State University · USSapienza University of Rome · ITCancer Genetics (United States) · US

Funding

Translational Therapeutics Research Program (TT)P30CA016058 · NCI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI Daniel G. Stover · 1985 to 2026
$132.3M
Cancer Gene Discovery to Identify Targetable TargetsR35CA197706 · NCI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI CROCE, CARLO M · 2015 to 2021
$6.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016058NCI NIH HHS R35 CA197706
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fos-related antigen-2 (Fra-2) is the most recently discovered member of the Fos family and, by dimerizing with Jun proteins, forms the activator protein 1 (AP-1) transcription factor. By inducing or repressing the transcription of several target genes, Fra-2 is critically involved in the modulation of cell response to a variety of extracellular stimuli, stressors and intracellular changes. In physiological conditions, Fra-2 has been found to be ubiquitously expressed in human cells, regulating differentiation and homeostasis of bone, muscle, nervous, lymphoid and other tissues. While other AP-1 members, like Jun and Fos, are well characterized, studies of Fra-2 functions in cancer are still at an early stage. Due to the lack of a trans-activating domain, which is present in other Fos proteins, it has been suggested that Fra-2 might inhibit cell transformation, eventually exerting an anti-tumor effect. In human malignancies, however, Fra-2 activity is enhanced (or induced) by dysregulation of microRNAs, oncogenes and extracellular signaling, suggesting a multifaceted role. Therefore, Fra-2 can promote or prevent transformation, proliferation, migration, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, drug resistance and metastasis formation in a tumor- and context-dependent manner. Intriguingly, recent data reports that Fra-2 is also expressed in cancer associated cells, contributing to the intricate crosstalk between neoplastic and non-neoplastic cells, that leads to the evolution and remodeling of the tumor microenvironment. In this review we summarize three decades of research on Fra-2, focusing on its oncogenic and anti-oncogenic effects in tumor progression and dissemination.

Indexed as

NeoplasmsTranscription Factor AP-1Cell Transformation, NeoplasticFos-Related Antigen-2Gene Expression RegulationHumansProto-Oncogene Proteins c-fosProto-Oncogene Proteins c-junTumor MicroenvironmentFOSL2 protein, humanFos-Related Antigen-2Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fosProto-Oncogene Proteins c-junTranscription Factor AP-1

Identifiers

PMID38104183
PMCPMC10850073
OpenAlexW4389847712

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