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CELL DEATH & DISEASE
卷 10, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1038/s41419-019-1906-5
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81871933]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai [16ZR1421300]
Resistance to molecular targeted therapies is a significant challenge for advanced colorectal cancer (CRC). Understanding the underlying mechanisms and developing effective strategies against regorafenib resistance are highly desired in the clinic. Here, we screened the expression of chemokine receptors and identified CC chemokine receptor 2 (CCR2) as a top upregulated gene in regorafenib-resistant cells. CCR2 silencing alleviated drug tolerance in regorafenib-resistant cells, while overexpression of CCR2 enhanced CRC cells resistance to regorafenib. Moreover, CCR2-mediated regorafenib tolerance was demonstrated to be associated with AKT/GSK3 beta-regulated beta-catenin stabilization. In turn, beta-catenin modulation is sufficient to trigger the transcriptional activation of CCR2 expression. Clinically, high-CCR2 expression was correlated to shorter overall survival and disease-free survival of patients. A positive correlation between CCR2 and nuclear beta-catenin expression was observed in a cohort of CRC tissues. Altogether, these findings suggest beta-catenin and CCR2 are part of a positive-feedback loop, which sustains a high CCR2 expression level, conferring CRC cells resistance to regorafenib. Thus, targeting CCR2 may be a useful therapeutic strategy to alleviate regorafenib tolerance to increase the efficacy of CRC treatments.
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