Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

The pathogenesis of mesothelioma is driven by a dysregulated translatome

  • Stefano Grosso,
  • Alberto Marini,
  • Katarina Gyuraszova,
  • Johan Vande Voorde,
  • Aristeidis Sfakianos,
  • Gavin D. Garland,
  • Angela Rubio Tenor,
  • Ryan Mordue,
  • Tanya Chernova,
  • Nobu Morone,
  • Marco Sereno,
  • Claire P. Smith,
  • Leah Officer,
  • Pooyeh Farahmand,
  • Claire Rooney,
  • David Sumpton,
  • Madhumita Das,
  • Ana Teodósio,
  • Catherine Ficken,
  • Maria Guerra Martin,
  • Ruth V. Spriggs,
  • Xiao-Ming Sun,
  • Martin Bushell,
  • Owen J. Sansom,
  • Daniel Murphy,
  • Marion MacFarlane,
  • John P. C. Le Quesne,
  • Anne E. Willis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25173-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Treating malignant pleural mesothelioma (MpM) is challenging due to a lack of druggable genes, but other molecular features could be clinically useful. Here the authors profile mRNA translation dysregulation in MpM cell lines using polysome profiling, and identify mTORC1 and 2 as potential pharmacological targets.