Inhibition of the de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis pathway limits ribosomal RNA transcription causing nucleolar stress in glioblastoma cells.

Glioblastoma is the most common and aggressive type of cancer in the brain; its poor prognosis is often marked by reoccurrence due to resistance to the chemotherapeutic agent temozolomide, which is triggered by an increase in the expression of DNA repair enzymes such as MGMT. The poor prognosis and...

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Main Authors: M Carmen Lafita-Navarro, Niranjan Venkateswaran, Jessica A Kilgore, Suman Kanji, Jungsoo Han, Spencer Barnes, Noelle S Williams, Michael Buszczak, Sandeep Burma, Maralice Conacci-Sorrell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-11-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009117