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Record W4412707787 · doi:10.1038/s41467-025-62172-4

Tumour initiated purinergic signalling promotes cardiomyocyte RBFOX1 degradation and cardiotoxicity from DNA damaging anticancer agents

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Saymon Tejay, Maria Areli Lorenzana‐Carrillo, Guocheng Huang, Seyed Amirhossein Tabatabaei Dakhili, Yuan Zhao, Farah Eaton, Michelle Mendiola, Dawn E. Bowles, Adam Kinnaird, D. Ian Paterson, Edith Pituskin, John R. Ussher, Evangelos D. Michelakis, Gopinath Sutendra

Bibliographic record

VenueNature Communications · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicAdenosine and Purinergic Signaling
Canadian institutionsNorthern Alberta Institute of TechnologyUniversity of OttawaUniversity of Alberta
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchAlberta InnovatesCanada Research ChairsUniversity of CalgaryCancer Research Institute
KeywordsHypoxanthineDNA damageCancer researchInosineBiologyCardiotoxicityCell biologyApoptosisChemistryDNAAdenosineBiochemistryGeneticsChemotherapyEnzyme

Abstract

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It is well established tumour cells secrete signalling factors affecting distant normal tissues. What remains unresolved is whether these factors initiate a signalling cascade rendering terminally differentiated cardiomyocytes susceptible to apoptosis, a feature of chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity (CIC). Here we show in MANTICORE trial cancer patients, cumulative baseline plasma levels of the nucleoside inosine and its derivative hypoxanthine predict cardiotoxicity. We found the Zn2+ finger transcription factor ZNF281 increases synthesis and release of inosine and hypoxanthine, which bind the A2A receptor on cardiomyocytes, activating CAMKIIδ which phosphorylates the postnatal mRNA splicing factor RBFOX1, resulting in its caspase-dependent degradation. RBFOX1 loss reverts cardiomyocytes to a less mature state with open chromatin and susceptibility to DNA damage, apoptosis or CIC, when treated with DNA intercalating or alkylating anticancer agents. These findings suggest cumulative inosine and hypoxanthine levels may be a biomarker predicting patient susceptibility to DNA damaging anti-cancer agents. Chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity (CIC) is an adverse condition associated with several DNA damaging chemotherapeutics. Here, the authors discover that tumour ZNF281-mediated increase of purinergic signalling factors inosine and hypoxanthine promotes RBFOX1 degradation in cardiomyocytes, increasing the risk for developing CIC.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.003

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.307
Teacher spread0.284 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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