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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02189-9