Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Somatostatin receptor 2 expression in nasopharyngeal cancer is induced by Epstein Barr virus infection: impact on prognosis, imaging and therapy

  • Matt Lechner,
  • Volker H. Schartinger,
  • Christopher D. Steele,
  • Wen Long Nei,
  • Marc Lucas Ooft,
  • Liesa-Marie Schreiber,
  • Christodoulos P. Pipinikas,
  • Grace Tin-Yun Chung,
  • Yuk Yu Chan,
  • Feng Wu,
  • Ka-Fai To,
  • Chi Man Tsang,
  • Wayne Pearce,
  • Daniele Morelli,
  • Martin Philpott,
  • Liam Masterson,
  • Reshma Nibhani,
  • Graham Wells,
  • Christopher G. Bell,
  • Julia Koller,
  • Susanne Delecluse,
  • Yim Ling Yip,
  • Jacklyn Liu,
  • Cillian T. Forde,
  • Martin D. Forster,
  • Amrita Jay,
  • József Dudás,
  • Annika Krapp,
  • Simon Wan,
  • Christian Uprimny,
  • Susanne Sprung,
  • Johannes Haybaeck,
  • Tim R. Fenton,
  • Kerry Chester,
  • Christina Thirlwell,
  • Gary Royle,
  • Teresa Marafioti,
  • Rajeev Gupta,
  • Sagung Rai Indrasari,
  • Camelia Herdini,
  • Mohd Afiq Mohd Slim,
  • I. Indrawati,
  • Liam Sutton,
  • Renske Fles,
  • Bing Tan,
  • Joe Yeong,
  • Amit Jain,
  • Shuting Han,
  • Haitao Wang,
  • Kelvin S. H. Loke,
  • Wan He,
  • Ruilian Xu,
  • Hongtao Jin,
  • Zhiqiang Cheng,
  • David Howard,
  • Peter H. Hwang,
  • Quynh-Thu Le,
  • Joshua K. Tay,
  • Robert B. West,
  • Sai Wah Tsao,
  • Tim Meyer,
  • Herbert Riechelmann,
  • Udo Oppermann,
  • Henri-Jacques Delecluse,
  • Stefan M. Willems,
  • Melvin L. K. Chua,
  • Pierre Busson,
  • Kwok Wai Lo,
  • Guido Wollmann,
  • Nischalan Pillay,
  • Bart Vanhaesebroeck,
  • Valerie J. Lund

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20308-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) lacks effective diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, in particular at advanced stages. Here, the authors show that expression of the somatostatin receptor 2 is induced by Epstein-Barr virus in NPC and has a key role in the diagnosis, imaging, targeted therapies and prognosis of NPC.