Publication: CXCR3 in carcinoma progression
Authors
Ma, Bo ; Khazali, Ahmad ; Wells, Alan
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Publisher
Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de publicaciones
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DOI
10.14670/HH-11-594
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Description
Abstract
CXCR3 is a G-protein coupled receptor
which binds to ELR-negative CXC chemokines that
have been found to impact immune responses, vascular
develop, and wound repair. More recently, CXCR3 has
been examined in the context of cancer and increased
expression in many human tumors has been correlated
with poor prognosis in breast, melanoma, colon and
renal cancer patients. Three variants of CXCR3 are
identified so far (CXCR3-A, CXCR3-B and CXCR3-alt)
with the two primary ones, CXCR3-A and CXCR3-B,
considered to induce opposite physiological functions.
Generally, CXCR3-A, the predominant form in
hematopoietic cells, appears to mediate tumor “go”
signaling via promoting cell proliferation, survival,
chemotaxis, invasion and metastasis; while CXCR3-B,
the main form on formed elements including epithelial
cells, appears to mediate tumor “stop” signaling via
promoting growth suppression, apoptosis and vascular
involution. Thus, aberrant expression of the isoforms
CXCR3-A and CXCR3-B could affect tumor
progression. In this review, we have discussed the
profiles of CXCR3 variants and related signaling, as
well as the role of CXCR3 variants in cancer.
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Citation
Histology and Histopathology, vol.30, nº7, (2015)
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