ReviewCancers2023
The Significance of SPP1 in Lung Cancers and Its Impact as a Marker for Protumor Tumor-Associated Macrophages.
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- SPP1 promotes lymph node metastasis and malignant progression of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma by activating FAK-AKT signaling pathway.World journal of surgical oncology · 2026Article
- Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics identify SPP1 + trophoblast necroptosis as a potential contributor to late-onset preeclampsia via SPP1-CD44-mediated interaction with macrophages.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Article
- Targeted suppression of SPP1 inhibits tumor invasion and metastasis in NRF2 hyperactivated cisplatin resistant HNSCC.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Article
- Dissecting origin factors of lymph node metastasis in non-small cell lung cancer via multimodal omics.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Integrated analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing, transcriptomics, and thermal proteome profiling identifies PLCG1 as the therapeutic target of isopimpinellin in treating rheumatoid arthritis.Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2026Article
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- FN1 as a key gene in modulating the integrin cell surface pathway in breast cancer.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2026Article
- Decoding muscle-resident Schwann cell dynamics during neuromuscular junction remodeling.JCI insight · 2026Article
- Single-nucleus RNA sequencing identifies a novel tenogenic heterologous differentiation in endometrial carcinosarcomas: implications for diagnosis and tumor classification.The Journal of pathology · 2026Article
- SPP1+ Macrophages and the Orchestration of Spatially Organized Immunosuppression in Cancer.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Identification and characterization of MARCO-expressing tumor-associated macrophages in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma with pan-cancer relevance.NPJ precision oncology · 2026Article
- Defining the cellular and molecular identities of histologic subtypes in lung adenocarcinoma.Experimental hematology & oncology · 2026Article
- Identification and Validation of Prognostic Biomarker Signatures Associated with Overall Survival in Colorectal Cancer: Evidence from Bioinformatics Analysis and an in vivo Study.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2026Article
- Aging reshapes the osteosarcoma ecosystem through immune dysfunction and tumor cell reprogramming.Cellular oncology (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2026Article
- Multimodal single-cell and spatial profiling reveals altered T cell-mediated immunity and B-cell follicular architecture in non-metastatic lymph nodes of patients with aggressive non-small cell lung cancer.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
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Abstract
Macrophages are a representative cell type in the tumor microenvironment. Macrophages that infiltrate the cancer microenvironment are referred to as tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs). TAMs exhibit protumor functions related to invasion, metastasis, and immunosuppression, and an increased density of TAMs is associated with a poor clinical course in many cancers. Phosphoprotein 1 (SPP1), also known as osteopontin, is a multifunctional secreted phosphorylated glycoprotein. Although SPP1 is produced in a variety of organs, at the cellular level, it is expressed on only a few cell types, such as osteoblasts, fibroblasts, macrophages, dendritic cells, lymphoid cells, and mononuclear cells. SPP1 is also expressed by cancer cells, and previous studies have demonstrated correlations between levels of circulating SPP1 and/or increased SPP1 expression on tumor cells and poor prognosis in many types of cancer. We recently revealed that SPP1 expression on TAMs is correlated with poor prognosis and chemoresistance in lung adenocarcinoma. In this review, we summarize the significance of TAMs in lung cancers and discuss the importance of SPP1 as a new marker for the protumor subpopulation of monocyte-derived TAMs in lung adenocarcinoma. Several studies have shown that the SPP1/CD44 axis contribute to cancer chemoresistance in solid cancers, so the SPP1/CD44 axis may represent one of the most critical mechanisms for cell-to-cell communication between cancer cells and TAMs.
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