期刊
PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS
卷 221, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2020.107754
关键词
LIF; Cytokine; IL-6 superfamily; Cancer; Cancer therapy
资金
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [R01CA227912, R01CA214746, R01CA203965]
- Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) [W81XWH-16-1-0358]
LIF is a multifunctional cytokine that plays important roles in various physiological and pathological processes. While it can act as a tumor suppressor in some cancers, it can also promote oncogenesis in others. Targeting LIF is being investigated as a potential strategy for cancer therapy.
Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) is a multi-functional cytokine of the interleukin-6 (IL-6) superfamily. Initially identified as a factor that inhibits the proliferation of murine myeloid leukemia cells, LIF displays a wide variety of important functions in a cell-, tissue-and context-dependent manner in many physiological and pathological processes, including regulating cell proliferation, pluripotent stem cell self-renewal, tissue/organ development and regeneration, neurogenesis and neural regeneration, maternal reproduction, inflammation, infection, im-mune response, and metabolism. Emerging evidence has shown that LIF plays an important but complex role in human cancers; while LIF displays a tumor suppressive function in some types of cancers, including leukemia, LIF is overexpressed and exerts an oncogenic function in many more types of cancers. Further, targeting LIF has been actively investigated as a novel strategy for cancer therapy. This review summarizes the recent advances in the studies on LIF in human cancers and its potential application in cancer therapy. A better understanding of the role of LIF in different types of cancers and its underlying mechanisms will help to develop more effective strat-egies for cancer therapy. (c) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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