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Lastly, downregulation of FNIPs desensitizes cancer cells to Hsp90 inhibitors, whereas FNIPs overexpression in renal tumours compared with adjacent normal tissues correlates with enhanced binding of Hsp90 to its inhibitors. Our findings suggest that FNIPs expression can potentially serve as a predictive indicator of tumour response to Hsp90 inhibitors.</jats:p>","journal":"Nature Communications","year":2016,"id":22880,"datarank":2.2522608228087533,"base_score":4.343805421853684,"endowment":4.343805421853684,"self_citation_contribution":0.6515708132780527,"citation_network_contribution":1.6006900095307008,"self_endowment_contribution":0.6515708132780527,"citer_contribution":1.6006900095307008,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":76,"citer_count":58,"citers_with_citation_signal":50,"citers_with_endowment":50,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":142415,"name":"Diana M. 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