HAb18G/CD147 Promotes pSTAT3-Mediated Pancreatic Cancer Development via CD44s

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2014-12-15Author
Li, Ling
Tang, Wenhua
Wu, Xiaoqing
Karnak, David
Meng, Xiaojie
Thompson, Rachel
Hao, Xinbao
Li, Yongmin
Qiao, Xiaotan T.
Lin, Jiayuh
Fuchs, James R.
Simeone, Diane M.
Chen, Zhi-Nan
Lawrence, Theodore S.
Xu, Liang
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American Association for Cancer Research
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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PurposeSTAT3 plays a critical role in initiation and progression of pancreatic cancer. However, therapeutically targeting STAT3 is failure in clinic. We previously identified HAb18G/CD147 as an effective target for cancer treatment. In this study, we aimed to investigate potential role of HAb18G/CD147 in STAT3-involved pancreatic tumorigenesis in vitro and in vivo.Experimental DesignThe expression of HAb18G/CD147, pSTAT3 and CD44s were determined in tissue microarrays. The tumorigenic function and molecular signaling mechanism of HAb18G/CD147 was assessed by in vitro cellular and clonogenic growth, reporter assay, immunoblot, immunofluorescence staining, immunoprecipitation, and in vivo tumor formationusing loss or gain-of-function strategies.ResultsHighly expressed HAb18G/CD147 promoted cellular and clonogenic growth in vitro and tumorigenicity in vivo. CyPA, a ligand of CD147, stimulated STAT3 phosphorylation and its downstream genes cyclin D1/survivin through HAb18G/CD147 dependent mechanisms. HAb18G/CD147 was associated and co-localized with cancer stem cell marker CD44s in lipid rafts. The inhibitors of STAT3 and survivin, as well as CD44s neutralizing antibodies suppressed the HAb18G/CD147-induced cell growth. High HAb18G/CD147 expression in pancreatic cancer was significantly correlated with the poor tumor differentiation, and the high co-expression of HAb18G/CD147-CD44s-STAT3 associated with poor survival of patients with pancreatic cancer.ConclusionsWe identified HAb18G/CD147 as a novel upstream activator of STAT3 via interacts with CD44s and plays a critical role in the development of pancreatic cancer. The data suggest HAb18G/CD147 could be a promising therapeutic target for highly aggressive pancreatic cancer and a surrogate marker in the STAT3-targeted molecular therapies.
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Li, L., W. Tang, X. Wu, D. Karnak, X. Meng, R. Thompson, X. Hao, Y. Li, X. T. Qiao, J. Lin, J. Fuchs, D. M. Simeone, Z.-N. Chen, T. S. Lawrence, and L. Xu. "HAb18G/CD147 Promotes PSTAT3-Mediated Pancreatic Cancer Development via CD44s." Clinical Cancer Research 19.24 (2013): 6703-715.
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