Flora Cimmino, Annalaura Montella, Matilde Tirelli, Marianna Avitabile, Vito Alessandro Lasorsa, Feliciano Visconte, Sueva Cantalupo, Teresa Maiorino, Biagio De Angelis, Martina Morini, Aurora Castellano, Franco Locatelli, Mario Capasso, Achille Iolascon
BACKGROUND: FGFR1 regulates cell-cell adhesion and extracellular matrix architecture and acts as oncogene in several cancers. Potential cancer driver mutations of FGFR1 occur in neuroblastoma (NB), a neural crest-derived pediatric tumor arising in sympathetic nervous system, but so far they have not been studied experimentally. We investigated the driver-oncogene role of FGFR1 and the implication of N546K mutation in therapy-resistance in NB cells. METHODS: Public datasets were used to predict the correlation of FGFR1 expression with NB clinical outcomes...
April 29, 2022: Cancer Cell International