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Trial reportThe Journal of clinical investigation2013

Sox17 promotes tumor angiogenesis and destabilizes tumor vessels in mice.

Hanseul Yang, Sungsu Lee, Seungjoo Lee, Kangsan Kim, Yeseul Yang, Jeong Hoon Kim, Ralf H Adams, James M Wells, Sean J Morrison, Gou Young Koh and 1 more

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In one paragraph

Trial report in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
57citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 107 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. SOX17 in pulmonary arterial hypertension: from development to clinical phenotype.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025
    Review
  5. Hypoxia regulate developmental coronary angiogenesis potentially through VEGF-R2- and SOX17-mediated signaling.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2025
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  12. Transcription factors regulating vasculogenesis and angiogenesis.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2024
    Review
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  14. E2F1 Mediates SOX17 Deficiency-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension.Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) · 2023
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  17. SOX17 at the Intersection of Sex, Transcription, and Metabolism in Pulmonary Hypertension.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2023
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  18. E2F1 Mediates SOX17 Deficiency-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Hanseul YangGraduate School of Medical Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
Sungsu Lee
Seungjoo Lee
Kangsan Kim
Yeseul Yang
Jeong Hoon Kim
Ralf H Adams
James M Wells
Sean J Morrison
Gou Young Koh
Injune Kim
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · KRAsan Medical Center · KRCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center · USYork Minster · GB

Funding

Human Endocrine Cell DevelopmentR01DK092456 · NIDDK · CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR · PI WELLS, JAMES M · 2012 to 2016
$2.3M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK092456
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Little is known about the transcriptional regulation of tumor angiogenesis, and tumor ECs (tECs) remain poorly characterized. Here, we studied the expression pattern of the transcription factor Sox17 in the vasculature of murine and human tumors and investigated the function of Sox17 during tumor angiogenesis using Sox17 genetic mouse models. Sox17 was specifically expressed in tECs in a heterogeneous pattern; in particular, strong Sox17 expression distinguished tECs with high VEGFR2 expression. Whereas overexpression of Sox17 in tECs promoted tumor angiogenesis and vascular abnormalities, Sox17 deletion in tECs reduced tumor angiogenesis and normalized tumor vessels, inhibiting tumor growth. Tumor vessel normalization by Sox17 deletion was long lasting, improved anticancer drug delivery into tumors, and inhibited tumor metastasis. Sox17 promoted endothelial sprouting behavior and upregulated VEGFR2 expression in a cell-intrinsic manner. Moreover, Sox17 increased the percentage of tumor-associated CD11b+Gr-1+ myeloid cells within tumors. The vascular effects of Sox17 persisted throughout tumor growth. Interestingly, Sox17 expression specific to tECs was also observed in highly vascularized human glioblastoma samples. Our findings establish Sox17 as a key regulator of tumor angiogenesis and tumor progression.

Indexed as

AnimalsFemaleGene DeletionGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGlioblastomaHMGB ProteinsHumansMaleMiceMice, Mutant StrainsMyeloid CellsNeoplasm MetastasisNeoplasm ProteinsNeoplasms, ExperimentalNeovascularization, PathologicSOXF Transcription FactorsHMGB ProteinsNeoplasm ProteinsSOX17 protein, humanSox17 protein, mouseSOXF Transcription FactorsVascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-2

Identifiers

PMID23241958
PMCPMC3533291
OpenAlexW1966140594

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