Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Downregulation of TLX induces TET3 expression and inhibits glioblastoma stem cell self-renewal and tumorigenesis

  • Qi Cui,
  • Su Yang,
  • Peng Ye,
  • E. Tian,
  • Guoqiang Sun,
  • Jiehua Zhou,
  • Guihua Sun,
  • Xiaoxuan Liu,
  • Chao Chen,
  • Kiyohito Murai,
  • Chunnian Zhao,
  • Krist T. Azizian,
  • Lu Yang,
  • Charles Warden,
  • Xiwei Wu,
  • Massimo D'Apuzzo,
  • Christine Brown,
  • Behnam Badie,
  • Ling Peng,
  • Arthur D. Riggs,
  • John J. Rossi,
  • Yanhong Shi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10637
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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TLX is a nuclear receptor essential for neural stem cell self-renewal and recently involved in glioblastoma development. In this study, the authors show that inhibition of TLX expression, achieved using a dendrimer nanovector-delivered siRNAs or viral vector-delivered shRNAs, reduces glioblastoma stem cells self renewal and in vivotumour growth through activation of TET3.