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ArticleScientific reports2016

Soluble B7-H3 promotes the invasion and metastasis of pancreatic carcinoma cells through the TLR4/NF-κB pathway.

Chao Xie, Danqing Liu, Qijun Chen, Chong Yang, Bo Wang, Heshui Wu

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 87 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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87 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 110 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Chao XiePancreatic Disease Institute, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, Hubei province, People's Republic of China.
Danqing LiuKey Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Gastrointestinal Cancer, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350000, Fujian province, People's Republic of China.
Qijun ChenPancreatic Disease Institute, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, Hubei province, People's Republic of China.
Chong YangOrgan Transplantation Center, Hospital of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu 610072, People's Republic of China.
Bo WangPancreatic Disease Institute, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, Hubei province, People's Republic of China.
Heshui WuPancreatic Disease Institute, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, Hubei province, People's Republic of China.
Union Hospital · CNFujian Medical University · CNHuazhong University of Science and Technology · CNUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many studies have demonstrated a relationship between soluble B7-H3 (sB7-H3) and the poor prognosis of patients with malignant tumors, and increasing evidence has shown a connection between sB7-H3 and NF-κB in tumor progression. In the present study, we demonstrate for the first time that sB7-H3 promotes the invasion and metastasis of pancreatic carcinoma cells through the TLR4/NF-κB pathway. In this study, we observed that sB7-H3 was highly expressed in mB7-H3-positive pancreatic carcinoma (PCa) cells. Exogenous sB7-H3 significantly increased NF-κB activity and promoted the migration and invasion of PCa cells. Further studies proved that sB7-H3 first up-regulated TLR4 expression, then activated NF-κB signaling and finally promoted IL-8 and VEGF expression. In contrast, the silencing of TLR4 using a stable short hairpin RNA significantly decreased the sB7-H3-induced activity of NF-κB and the expression of IL-8 and VEGF in PCa cells. In vivo animal experiments further demonstrated that TLR4-knock-down tumor cells displayed a decreased ability to metastasize compared with the control tumor cells after being induced by sB7-H3. Collectively, these results demonstrate that sB7-H3 promotes invasion and metastasis through the TLR4/NF-κB pathway in pancreatic carcinoma cells.

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PrognosisAnimalsB7 AntigensCell Line, TumorCell MovementGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansInterleukin-8MiceNeoplasm InvasivenessNeoplasm MetastasisNF-kappa BPancreatic NeoplasmsSignal TransductionToll-Like Receptor 4Xenograft Model Antitumor AssaysB7 AntigensCD276 protein, humanInterleukin-8NF-kappa BTLR4 protein, humanToll-Like Receptor 4

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