Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Endothelial deletion of SHP2 suppresses tumor angiogenesis and promotes vascular normalization

  • Zhiyong Xu,
  • Chunyi Guo,
  • Qiaoli Ye,
  • Yueli Shi,
  • Yihui Sun,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Jiaqi Huang,
  • Yizhou Huang,
  • Chunlai Zeng,
  • Xue Zhang,
  • Yuehai Ke,
  • Hongqiang Cheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26697-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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SHP2 regulates pro-angiogenic VEGF-VEGFR signalling, but its role in tumour angiogenesis is unclear. Here the authors show that endothelial cell-specific deletion of SHP2 impairs tumour growth and angiogenesis in syngeneic mouse models through ASK1-c-JunSOX7 signalling axis.