Communications Biology (Mar 2023)

Ribonucleotide reductase subunit switching in hepatoblastoma drug response and relapse

  • Anthony Brown,
  • Qingfei Pan,
  • Li Fan,
  • Emilie Indersie,
  • Cheng Tian,
  • Nikolai Timchenko,
  • Liyuan Li,
  • Baranda S. Hansen,
  • Haiyan Tan,
  • Meifen Lu,
  • Junmin Peng,
  • Shondra M. Pruett-Miller,
  • Jiyang Yu,
  • Stefano Cairo,
  • Liqin Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04630-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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In hepatoblastoma, the RRM2 subunit of ribonucleotide reductase is associated with disease progression, but in response to chemotherapy, subunit switching favours the less active RRM2B subunit which supports hepatoblastoma cell survival and relapse.