LNMAT1 promotes lymphatic metastasis of bladder cancer via CCL2 dependent macrophage recruitment

Mechanism of lymph node (LN) metastasis induced by tumor associated macrophages (TAMs) remains unclear. Here they demonstrate that a long noncoding RNA LNMAT1 promotes LN metastasis of bladder cancer via recruitment of TAMs through epigenetic regulation of CCL2 expression.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Changhao Chen, Wang He, Jian Huang, Bo Wang, Hui Li, Qingqing Cai, Feng Su, Junming Bi, Hongwei Liu, Bin Zhang, Ning Jiang, Guangzheng Zhong, Yue Zhao, Wen Dong, Tianxin Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06152-x