Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Secreted protease PRSS35 suppresses hepatocellular carcinoma by disabling CXCL2-mediated neutrophil extracellular traps

  • Ting Wang,
  • Yingli Zhou,
  • Zilong Zhou,
  • Pinggen Zhang,
  • Ronghui Yan,
  • Linchong Sun,
  • Wenhao Ma,
  • Tong Zhang,
  • Shengqi Shen,
  • Haiying Liu,
  • Hui Lu,
  • Ling Ye,
  • Junru Feng,
  • Zhaolin Chen,
  • Xiuying Zhong,
  • Gao Wu,
  • Yongping Cai,
  • Weidong Jia,
  • Ping Gao,
  • Huafeng Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37227-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The secretome of hepatocytes and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells can contribute to cancer progression. Here the authors show that PRSS35 inhibits HCC progression through proteolytic depletion of CXCL2 and subsequently decreased neutrophil recruitment to tumours.