Arnal-Estapé Anna, Nguyen Don X
Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut. Yale Cancer Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
Cancer Discov. 2015 Feb;5(2):109-11. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-15-0013.
Glycosylation is one of the most predominant forms of cell-surface protein modifications, yet its deregulation in cancer and contribution to tumor microenvironment interactions remain poorly understood. In this issue of Cancer Discovery, Reticker-Flynn and Bhatia characterize an enzymatic switch in lung cancer cells that triggers aberrant surface protein glycosylation patterns, adhesion to lectins on the surface of inflammatory cells, and subsequent metastatic colonization of the liver.
糖基化是细胞表面蛋白修饰最主要的形式之一,然而其在癌症中的失调以及对肿瘤微环境相互作用的影响仍知之甚少。在本期《癌症发现》杂志中,雷蒂克-弗林和巴蒂亚描述了肺癌细胞中的一种酶促开关,该开关触发异常的表面蛋白糖基化模式、与炎症细胞表面凝集素的粘附以及随后肝脏的转移定植。