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ArticleAdvanced therapeutics2024

Targeting glioblastoma tumor hyaluronan to enhance therapeutic interventions that regulate metabolic cell properties.

Edward R Neves, Achal Anand, Joseph Mueller, Roddel A Remy, Hui Xu, Kim A Selting, Jann N Sarkaria, Brendan Ac Harley, Sara Pedron-Haba

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Article in Advanced therapeutics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Edward R NevesDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1206 W Gregory Dr., Urbana IL 61801, USA.
Achal AnandDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1206 W Gregory Dr., Urbana IL 61801, USA.
Joseph MuellerDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1206 W Gregory Dr., Urbana IL 61801, USA.
Roddel A RemyMaterials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 104 S Goodwin Ave MC-230, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Hui XuTumor Engineering and Phenotyping, Cancer Center at Illinois, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Kim A SeltingVeterinary Clinical Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2001 S Lincoln Ave. Urbana, IL 61802, USA.
Jann N SarkariaDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street Southwest, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
Brendan Ac HarleyDept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Cancer Center at Illinois, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 110 Roger Adams Laboratory, 600 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801.
Sara Pedron-HabaDept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Cancer Center at Illinois, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1206 W Gregory Dr. Urbana, IL 61801, USA.

Funding

Synthetic manipulation of engineered perivascular nichesR01CA256481 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI HARLEY, BRENDAN A. · 2021 to 2025
$3.4M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA256481
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite extensive advances in cancer research, glioblastoma (GBM) still remains a very locally invasive and thus challenging tumor to treat, with a poor median survival. Tumor cells remodel their microenvironment and utilize extracellular matrix to promote invasion and therapeutic resistance. We aim here to determine how GBM cells exploit hyaluronan (HA) to maintain proliferation using ligand-receptor dependent and ligand-receptor independent signaling. We use tissue engineering approaches to recreate the three-dimensional tumor microenvironment in vitro, then analyze shifts in metabolism, hyaluronan secretion, HA molecular weight distribution, as well as hyaluronan synthetic enzymes (HAS) and hyaluronidases (HYAL) activity in an array of patient derived xenograft GBM cells. We reveal that endogenous HA plays a role in mitochondrial respiration and cell proliferation in a tumor subtype dependent manner. We propose a tumor specific combination treatment of HYAL and HAS inhibitors to disrupt the HA stabilizing role in GBM cells. Taken together, these data shed light on the dual metabolic and ligand - dependent signaling roles of hyaluronan in glioblastoma.

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brain cancerengineered disease modelsglioblastomahyaluronan metabolismhydrogeltumor microenvironment

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PMID40248278
PMCPMC12002556

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