ArticleOncotarget2016
An alternatively spliced variant of CXCR3 mediates the metastasis of CD133+ liver cancer cells induced by CXCL9.
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- Targeting CXCL9/10/11-CXCR3 axis: an important component of tumor-promoting and antitumor immunity.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2023Review
- Assessment of serum CXCL9 and pentraxin 3 as novel markers for hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhotic hepatitis C patients.Clinical and experimental hepatology · 2023Article
- CXCL9 correlates with antitumor immunity and is predictive of a favorable prognosis in uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Article
- Chimeric antigen receptor T cells applied to solid tumors.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Review
- Approaches to spatially resolving the tumour immune microenvironment of hepatocellular carcinoma.Therapeutic advances in medical oncology · 2022Review
- Contribution of CXCR3-mediated signaling in the metastatic cascade of solid malignancies.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Reviews on cancer · 2021Review
- Interferon-γ-Inducible Chemokines as Prognostic Markers for Lung Cancer.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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- Role of chemokines in hepatocellular carcinoma (Review).Oncology reports · 2021Review
- Role of Chemokines in the Biology of Cholangiocarcinoma.Cancers · 2020Review
- Endogenous CXCL9 affects prognosis by regulating tumor-infiltrating natural killer cells in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.Cancer science · 2020Article
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- Cancer Stem Cells-Origins and Biomarkers: Perspectives for Targeted Personalized Therapies.Frontiers in immunology · 2020Review
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Abstract
Metastasis of liver cancer is closely linked to tumor microenvironment, in which chemokines and their receptors act in an important role. The CXCR3, the receptor of chemokine CXCL9, belongs to a superfamily of rhodopsin-like seven transmembrane GPCRs and CXCR subfamily. In HCC tissues, CXCR3 was frequently upregulated and correlated with tumor size, tumor differentiation, portal invasion and metastasis. In the study, CXCR3-A isoform that was bound by CXCL9 was found to cause significant change of ERK1/2 phosphorylation level in the MAPK signaling pathway, consequently upregulating the MMP2 and MMP9 expression and promoting invasion and metastasis of CD133+ liver cancer cells. Also, CXCR3-A suppressed the adhesion ability of CD133+ liver cancer cells that stimulated by CXCL9 for 24h. These findings suggest that CXCR3 and its ligand CXCL9 could promote the metastasis of liver cancer cells and might be a potential target for the intervention of liver cancer metastasis.
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