Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

ITLN1 modulates invasive potential and metabolic reprogramming of ovarian cancer cells in omental microenvironment

  • Chi-Lam Au-Yeung,
  • Tsz-Lun Yeung,
  • Abhinav Achreja,
  • Hongyun Zhao,
  • Kay-Pong Yip,
  • Suet-Ying Kwan,
  • Michaela Onstad,
  • Jianting Sheng,
  • Ying Zhu,
  • Dodge L. Baluya,
  • Ngai-Na Co,
  • Angela Rynne-Vidal,
  • Rosemarie Schmandt,
  • Matthew L. Anderson,
  • Karen H. Lu,
  • Stephen T. C. Wong,
  • Deepak Nagrath,
  • Samuel C. Mok

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17383-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Advanced ovarian cancer usually spreads to the omentum. Here, the authors show that circulating intelectin-1 (ITLN1) has prognostic significance in patients with advanced ovarian cancer, and that mesothelial cell-derived ITLN1 in the omental tumor microenvironment suppresses ovarian cancer progression.