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ArticleMolecular oncology2025

Sustained cancer-relevant alternative RNA splicing events driven by PRMT5 in high-risk neuroblastoma.

Laurel Tabe Bate-Eya, Gulsah Albayrak, Simon Mark Carr, Amit Shrestha, Alexander Kanapin, Anastasia Samsonova, Nicholas Barrie La Thangue

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Article in Molecular oncology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Laurel Tabe Bate-EyaLaboratory of Cancer Biology, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, UK.
Gulsah AlbayrakLaboratory of Cancer Biology, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, UK.
Simon Mark CarrLaboratory of Cancer Biology, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, UK.
Amit ShresthaLaboratory of Cancer Biology, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, UK.
Alexander KanapinInstitute of Translational Biomedicine, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia.
Anastasia SamsonovaInstitute of Translational Biomedicine, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia.
Nicholas Barrie La ThangueLaboratory of Cancer Biology, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2568-3736

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Cancer Research UK A20776Russian Science Foundation 23-14-00134
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) is over-expressed in a wide variety of cancers and is implicated as having a key oncogenic role, achieved in part through its control of the master transcription regulator E2F1. We investigated the relevance of PRMT5 and E2F1 in neuroblastoma (NB) and found that elevated expression of PRMT5 and E2F1 occurs in poor prognosis high-risk disease and correlates with an amplified Myelocytomatosis viral-related oncogene, neuroblastoma-derived (MYCN) gene. Our results show that MYCN drives the expression of splicing factor genes that, together with PRMT5 and E2F1, lead to a deregulated alternative RNA splicing programme that impedes apoptosis. Pharmacological inhibition of PRMT5 or inactivation of E2F1 restores normal splicing and renders NB cells sensitive to apoptosis. Our findings suggest that a sustained cancer-relevant alternative RNA splicing programme desensitises NB cells to apoptosis, and identify PRMT5 as a potential therapeutic target for high-risk disease.

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Alternative SplicingNeuroblastomaProtein-Arginine N-MethyltransferasesApoptosisCell Line, TumorE2F1 Transcription FactorGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansN-Myc Proto-Oncogene ProteinE2F1 protein, humanE2F1 Transcription FactorMYCN protein, humanN-Myc Proto-Oncogene ProteinPRMT5 protein, humanProtein-Arginine N-Methyltransferasesalternative RNA splicingapoptosisE2F1neuroblastomaPRMT5therapeutic target

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PMID39021294
PMCPMC11887678

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