Communications Biology (Jun 2021)

Claudin-2 promotes colorectal cancer liver metastasis and is a biomarker of the replacement type growth pattern

  • Sébastien Tabariès,
  • Matthew G. Annis,
  • Anthoula Lazaris,
  • Stephanie K. Petrillo,
  • Jennifer Huxham,
  • Amri Abdellatif,
  • Vincent Palmieri,
  • Jaclyn Chabot,
  • Radia M. Johnson,
  • Steven Van Laere,
  • Cornelis Verhoef,
  • Yasmina Hachem,
  • Sara Yumeen,
  • Nicholas Meti,
  • Atilla Omeroglu,
  • Gulbeyaz Altinel,
  • Zu-Hua Gao,
  • Alan S. L. Yu,
  • Dirk J. Grünhagen,
  • Peter Vermeulen,
  • Peter Metrakos,
  • Peter M. Siegel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02189-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Tabariès et al. describe that claudin 2 is a promoter of colorectal cancer liver metastasis. Furthermore, high Claudin-2 expression is associated with shorter time to liver-specific recurrence and is a biomarker of replacement type CRC liver metastases.