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ArticleCancer research2014

Immune chaperone gp96 drives the contributions of macrophages to inflammatory colon tumorigenesis.

Crystal Morales, Saleh Rachidi, Feng Hong, Shaoli Sun, Xinshou Ouyang, Caroline Wallace, Yongliang Zhang, Elizabeth Garret-Mayer, Jennifer Wu, Bei Liu and 1 more

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Article in Cancer research, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Crystal MoralesAuthors' Affiliations: Departments of Microbiology and Immunology and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina; and Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut.
Saleh Rachidi
Feng Hong
Shaoli Sun
Xinshou Ouyang
Caroline Wallace
Yongliang Zhang
Elizabeth Garret-Mayer
Jennifer Wu
Bei Liu
Zihai Li
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center · USMedical University of South Carolina · USUConn Health · US

Funding

Translational Science Laboratory Shared ResourceP30CA138313 · NCI · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI RAYMOND N. DUBOIS · 2009 to 2026
$42.7M
T-COHR: Training in Craniofacial and Oral Health ResearchT32DE017551 · NIDCR · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI YAO, HAI · 2006 to 2025
$10.3M
Project 3: Structural Basis for grp94 Drug Development and Chaperone FunctionP01CA186866 · NCI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI LI, ZIHAI · 2015 to 2019
$6.7M
Roles and Mechanisms of gp96 in Chaperoning Innate ImmunityR01AI070603 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI LI, ZIHAI · 2007 to 2016
$3.8M
Molecular chaperones and immune toleranceR01AI077283 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI LI, ZIHAI · 2009 to 2021
$3.7M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA186866NCI NIH HHS P30 CA138313NIAID NIH HHS AI070603NIAID NIH HHS AI077283NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI070603NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI077283NIDCR NIH HHS T32 DE017551
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Macrophages are important drivers in the development of inflammation-associated colon cancers, but the mechanistic underpinnings for their contributions are not fully understood. Furthermore, Toll-like receptors have been implicated in colon cancer, but their relevant cellular sites of action are obscure. In this study, we show that the endoplasmic reticulum chaperone gp96 is essential in tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) to license their contributions to inflammatory colon tumorigenesis. Mice where gp96 was genetically deleted in a macrophage-specific manner exhibited reduced colitis and inflammation-associated colon tumorigenesis. Attenuation of colon cancer in these mice correlated strikingly with reduced mutation rates of β-catenin, increased efficiency of the DNA repair machinery, and reduced expression of proinflammatory cytokines, including interleukin (IL)-17 and IL-23 in the tumor microenvironment. The genotoxic nature of TAM-associated inflammation was evident by increased expression of genes in the DNA repair pathway. Our work deepens understanding of how TAM promote oncogenesis by altering the molecular oncogenic program within epithelial cells, and it identifies gp96 as a lynchpin chaperone needed in TAM to license their function and impact on expression of critical inflammatory cytokines in colon tumorigenesis.

Indexed as

Cell Transformation, NeoplasticGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticAnimalsBone Marrow CellsColitisColonColonic NeoplasmsCrosses, GeneticCytokinesDisease ProgressionDNA RepairGene DeletionInflammationInterleukin-17Interleukin-23MacrophagesCytokinesendoplasminInterleukin-17Interleukin-23Membrane Glycoproteins

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PMID24322981
PMCPMC4002507
OpenAlexW2163094981

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