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Targeting HOX-PBX interactions causes death in oral potentially malignant and squamous carcinoma cells but not normal oral keratinocytes

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Cancer, July 2018
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Title
Targeting HOX-PBX interactions causes death in oral potentially malignant and squamous carcinoma cells but not normal oral keratinocytes
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BMC Cancer, July 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12885-018-4622-0
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Christopher Platais, Raghu Radhakrishnan, Sven Niklander Ebensperger, Richard Morgan, Daniel W. Lambert, Keith D. Hunter

Abstract

High HOX gene expression has been described in many cancers, including oral squamous cell carcinoma and the functional roles of these genes are gradually being understood. The pattern of overexpression suggests that inhibition may be useful therapeutically. Inhibition of HOX protein binding to PBX cofactors by the use of synthetic peptides, such as HXR9, results in apoptosis in multiple cancers. Activity of the HOX-PBX inhibiting peptide HXR9 was tested in immortalised normal oral (NOK), potentially-malignant (PMOL) and squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) cells, compared to the inactive peptide CXR9. Cytotoxicity was assessed by LDH assay. Expression of PBX1/2 and c-Fos was assessed by qPCR and western blotting. Apoptosis was assessed by Annexin-V assay. PMOL and OSCC cells expressed PBX1/2. HOX-PBX inhibition by HXR9 caused death of PMOL and OSCC cells, but not NOKs. HXR9 treatment resulted in apoptosis and increased expression of c-Fos in some cells, whereas CXR9 did not. A correlation was observed between HOX expression and resistance to HXR9. Inhibition of HOX-PBX interactions causes selective apoptosis of OSCC/PMOL, indicating selective toxicity that may be useful clinically.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 31 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 13%
Professor 3 10%
Student > Postgraduate 3 10%
Student > Bachelor 2 6%
Other 8 26%
Unknown 5 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 26%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 19%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 6%
Social Sciences 2 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 6%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 8 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 July 2020.
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#6,955,569
of 23,094,276 outputs
Outputs from BMC Cancer
#1,822
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Outputs of similar age
#118,878
of 327,716 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Cancer
#42
of 151 outputs
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