Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Tumor-derived exosomal miR-1247-3p induces cancer-associated fibroblast activation to foster lung metastasis of liver cancer

  • Tian Fang,
  • Hongwei Lv,
  • Guishuai Lv,
  • Ting Li,
  • Changzheng Wang,
  • Qin Han,
  • Lexing Yu,
  • Bo Su,
  • Linna Guo,
  • Shanna Huang,
  • Dan Cao,
  • Liang Tang,
  • Shanhua Tang,
  • Mengchao Wu,
  • Wen Yang,
  • Hongyang Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02583-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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How tumor cells control metastatic niche formation is not fully understood. Here, the authors show in a lung metastatic niche, high-metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma cells secrete exosomal miR-1247-3p that leads to activation of β1-integrin-NF-κBsignalling, converting fibroblasts to cancer-associated fibroblasts.