Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Alteration of ribosome function upon 5-fluorouracil treatment favors cancer cell drug-tolerance

  • Gabriel Therizols,
  • Zeina Bash-Imam,
  • Baptiste Panthu,
  • Christelle Machon,
  • Anne Vincent,
  • Julie Ripoll,
  • Sophie Nait-Slimane,
  • Mounira Chalabi-Dchar,
  • Angéline Gaucherot,
  • Maxime Garcia,
  • Florian Laforêts,
  • Virginie Marcel,
  • Jihane Boubaker-Vitre,
  • Marie-Ambre Monet,
  • Céline Bouclier,
  • Christophe Vanbelle,
  • Guillaume Souahlia,
  • Elise Berthel,
  • Marie Alexandra Albaret,
  • Hichem C. Mertani,
  • Michel Prudhomme,
  • Martin Bertrand,
  • Alexandre David,
  • Jean-Christophe Saurin,
  • Philippe Bouvet,
  • Eric Rivals,
  • Théophile Ohlmann,
  • Jérôme Guitton,
  • Nicole Dalla Venezia,
  • Julie Pannequin,
  • Frédéric Catez,
  • Jean-Jacques Diaz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27847-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Different mechanisms have been reported to explain resistance to chemotherapy in cancer. Here, the authors show that the chemotherapeutic drug 5-fluorouracil alters the function of ribosomes to promote pro-survival gene translation leading to chemotherapy resistance.