Molecular Therapy: Oncolytics (Sep 2021)

Elevated Stratifin promotes cisplatin-based chemotherapy failure and poor prognosis in non-small cell lung cancer

  • Yu-Shui Ma,
  • Li-Kun Hou,
  • Shi-Hua Yao,
  • Ji-Bin Liu,
  • Xue-Chen Yu,
  • Yi Shi,
  • Xiao-Li Yang,
  • Wei Wu,
  • Chun-Yan Wu,
  • Geng-Xi Jiang,
  • Da Fu

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22
pp. 326 – 335

Abstract

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Drug resistance is a key factor in the treatment failure of clinical non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients after adjuvant chemotherapy. Here, our results provide the first evidence that eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2b subunit delta (EIF2B4)-Stratifin (SFN) fusion and increased SFN expression are associated with chemotherapy tolerance and activation of the phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase/v-akt murine thymoma viral oncogene (PI3K/Akt) signaling pathway in NSCLC patients, suggesting that SFN might have potential prognostic value as a tumor biomarker for the prognosis of patients with NSCLC.

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