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ArticleCancers2021

The Human TOR Signaling Regulator Is the Key Indicator of Liver Cancer Patients' Overall Survival: TIPRL/LC3/CD133/CD44 as Potential Biomarkers for Early Liver Cancers.

Soo Young Jun, Hyang Ran Yoon, Ji-Yong Yoon, Su-Jin Jeon, Jeong-Ju Lee, Debasish Halder, Jin-Man Kim, Nam-Soon Kim

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Article in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Soo Young JunMedical Genomics Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Daejeon 34141, Korea.
Hyang Ran YoonImmunotherapy Convergence Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Daejeon 34141, Korea.
Ji-Yong YoonMedical Genomics Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Daejeon 34141, Korea.
Su-Jin JeonMedical Genomics Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Daejeon 34141, Korea.
Jeong-Ju LeeMedical Genomics Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Daejeon 34141, Korea.
Debasish HalderMedical Genomics Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Daejeon 34141, Korea.
Jin-Man KimDepartment of Pathology, Chungnam National University College of Medicine, Chungnam National University Hospital, 266 Munhwa-ro, Jung-gu, Daejeon 35015, Korea.
Nam-Soon KimMedical Genomics Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Daejeon 34141, Korea.
Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology · KRKorea University of Science and Technology · KRChungnam National University Hospital · KR

Funding

National Research Foundation NRF-2020R1A2C2006752, 2014M3C9A2064618the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology Research Initiative Program the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology Research Initiative Program
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recently, we reported the involvement of TIPRL/LC3/CD133 in liver cancer aggressiveness. This study assessed the human TOR signaling regulator (TIPRL)/microtubule-associated light chain 3 (LC3)/prominin-1 (CD133)/cluster of differentiation 44 (CD44) as potential diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for early liver cancer. For the assessment, we stained tissues of human liver disease/cancer with antibodies against TIPRL/LC3/CD133/CD44/CD46, followed by confocal observation. The roles of TIPRL/LC3/CD133/CD44/CD46 in liver normal and cancer cell lines were determined by in vitro studies. We analyzed the prognostic and diagnostic potentials of TIPRL/LC3/CD133/CD44/CD46 using the receiver-operating characteristic curve, a Kaplan-Meier and uni-/multi-Cox analyses. TIPRL and LC3 were upregulated in tissues of HCCs and adult hepatocytes-derived liver diseases while downregulated in iCCA. Intriguingly, TIPRL levels were found to be critically associated with liver cancer patients' survivability, and TIPRL is the key player in liver cancer cell proliferation and viability via stemness and self-renewal induction. Furthermore, we demonstrate that TIPRL/LC3/CD133 have shown prominent efficiency for diagnosing patients with grade 1 iCCA. TIPRL/LC3/CD133/CD44 have also provided excellent potential for prognosticating patients with grade 1 iCCA and grade 1 HCCs, together with demonstrating that TIPRL/LC3/CD133/CD44 are, either individually or in conjunction, potential biomarkers for early liver cancer.

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cluster of differentiation 44 (CD44)hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs)human TOR signaling regulator (TIPRL)intrahepatic carcinomas (iCCA)Kaplan–Meier analysisliver cancermicrotubule-associated light chain 3 (LC3)prominin-1 (CD133)receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curveuni-/multi-Cox analyses

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PMID34208132
PMCPMC8230774
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