Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Determinants of renal cell carcinoma invasion and metastatic competence

  • Kangsan Kim,
  • Qinbo Zhou,
  • Alana Christie,
  • Christina Stevens,
  • Yuanqing Ma,
  • Oreoluwa Onabolu,
  • Suneetha Chintalapati,
  • Tiffani Mckenzie,
  • Vanina Toffessi Tcheuyap,
  • Layton Woolford,
  • He Zhang,
  • Nirmish Singla,
  • Pravat Kumar Parida,
  • Mauricio Marquez-Palencia,
  • Ivan Pedrosa,
  • Vitaly Margulis,
  • Arthur Sagalowsky,
  • Zhiqun Xie,
  • Tao Wang,
  • Steffen Durinck,
  • Zora Modrusan,
  • Somasekar Seshagiri,
  • Payal Kapur,
  • James Brugarolas,
  • Srinivas Malladi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25918-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Tumour thrombi (TT) are intravascular extensions of renal cell carcinomas (RCC) which often lead to distant metastases. Here the authors examine the determinants of vascular invasion and metastasis in a unique cohort of RCC patients with TT using multi-region genomics and in vivo models.