Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Lysosomal protein transmembrane 5 promotes lung-specific metastasis by regulating BMPR1A lysosomal degradation

  • Bo Jiang,
  • Xiaozhi Zhao,
  • Wei Chen,
  • Wenli Diao,
  • Meng Ding,
  • Haixiang Qin,
  • Binghua Li,
  • Wenmin Cao,
  • Wei Chen,
  • Yao Fu,
  • Kuiqiang He,
  • Jie Gao,
  • Mengxia Chen,
  • Tingsheng Lin,
  • Yongming Deng,
  • Chao Yan,
  • Hongqian Guo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31783-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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The mechanisms that confer lung-specific metastasis in renal cell carcinomas (RCC) remain to be detailed. Here the authors show that LAPTM5 contributes to lung-specific metastasis of RCCs by suppressing BMP signalling and thus, enhancing self-renewal and cancer stem cell-like traits of RCCs.