Communications Biology (Jul 2021)

PRL3 induces polypoid giant cancer cells eliminated by PRL3-zumab to reduce tumor relapse

  • Min Thura,
  • Zu Ye,
  • Abdul Qader Al-Aidaroos,
  • Qiancheng Xiong,
  • Jun Yi Ong,
  • Abhishek Gupta,
  • Jie Li,
  • Ke Guo,
  • Koon Hwee Ang,
  • Qi Zeng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02449-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Thura and colleagues report that PRL3 promotes PGCCs, which are found to be enriched in relapsed tumours. The authors demonstrated that this relapse can be prevented using PRL3-zumab for use in adjuvant immunotherapy to target PRL3-expressing PGCCs, thus preventing metastasis and relapse.