Journal
ONCOGENE
Volume 39, Issue 17, Pages 3443-3457Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/s41388-020-1231-6
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Funding
- Croatian Science Foundation [09.01/220, 2079]
- Scientific Center of Excellence for Reproductive and Regenerative Medicine [KK.01.1.1.01.0008]
- University of Rijeka [uniri-biomed-18-206]
- Swedish Cancer Society [170176]
- Swedish Research Council [VR-MH 2014-46602-117891-30]
- Novo Nordisk Foundation [16854]
- Danish National Research Foundation (project CARD) [DNRF125]
- Danish Cancer Society [R204-A12617]
- Lundbeck Foundation
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Perturbations in ribosome biogenesis have been associated with cancer. Such aberrations activate p53 through the RPL5/RPL11/5S rRNA complex-mediated inhibition of HDM2. Studies using animal models have suggested that this signaling pathway might constitute an important anticancer barrier. To gain a deeper insight into this issue in humans, here we analyze somatic mutations in RPL5 and RPL11 coding regions, reported in The Cancer Genome Atlas and International Cancer Genome Consortium databases. Using a combined computational and statistical approach, complemented by a range of biochemical and functional analyses in human cancer cell models, we demonstrate the existence of several mechanisms by which RPL5 mutations may impair wild-type p53 upregulation and ribosome biogenesis. Unexpectedly, the same approach provides only modest evidence for a similar role of RPL11, suggesting that RPL5 represents a preferred target during human tumorigenesis in cancers with wild-type p53. Furthermore, we find that several functional cancer-associated RPL5 somatic mutations occur as rare germline variants in general population. Our results shed light on the so-far enigmatic role of cancer-associated mutations in genes encoding ribosomal proteins, with implications for our understanding of the tumor suppressive role of the RPL5/RPL11/5S rRNA complex in human malignancies.
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