Roth Lise
INSERM U575 Centre de Neurochimie, Strasbourg, France.
Cell Adh Migr. 2008 Oct-Dec;2(4):217-9. doi: 10.4161/cam.2.4.6960. Epub 2008 Oct 9.
VEGF-C is a crucial player in lymphangiogenesis. Besides VEGFR-2 and VEGFR-3, it also binds NRP2. NRP2 enhances VEGF-C/VEGFR-3 effects in developmental lymphangiogenesis, but its role in adult and tumoral lymphangiogenesis is not known. In their study, Bagri and colleagues demonstrate that blocking NRP2 results in a decrease of metastasis formation, a phenomenon relying on tumoral lymphangiogenesis. Thus, they identified NRP2 as an attractive new target for modulating metastasis.
血管内皮生长因子C(VEGF-C)是淋巴管生成中的关键因子。除了血管内皮生长因子受体2(VEGFR-2)和血管内皮生长因子受体3(VEGFR-3)外,它还与神经纤毛蛋白2(NRP2)结合。NRP2在发育性淋巴管生成中增强VEGF-C/VEGFR-3的作用,但其在成人和肿瘤性淋巴管生成中的作用尚不清楚。在他们的研究中,巴格里及其同事证明,阻断NRP2会导致转移形成减少,这一现象依赖于肿瘤性淋巴管生成。因此,他们将NRP2确定为调节转移的一个有吸引力的新靶点。