Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

VEGFR2 pY949 signalling regulates adherens junction integrity and metastatic spread

  • Xiujuan Li,
  • Narendra Padhan,
  • Elisabet O. Sjöström,
  • Francis P. Roche,
  • Chiara Testini,
  • Naoki Honkura,
  • Miguel Sáinz-Jaspeado,
  • Emma Gordon,
  • Katie Bentley,
  • Andrew Philippides,
  • Vladimir Tolmachev,
  • Elisabetta Dejana,
  • Radu V. Stan,
  • Dietmar Vestweber,
  • Kurt Ballmer-Hofer,
  • Christer Betsholtz,
  • Kristian Pietras,
  • Leif Jansson,
  • Lena Claesson-Welsh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11017
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Signals through VEGF receptor 2 (VEGFR2) increase vascular permeability, promoting cancer progression. Here the authors show that a point mutation in VEGFR2 preventing its auto-phosphorylation leads to reduced metastatic spread and improved response to chemotherapy in tumor-bearing mice, without affecting tumor inflammation.