Pancreatic-cancer-cell-derived trefoil factor 2 impairs maturation and migration of human monocyte-derived dendritic cells in vitro.

ABSTRACT: Pancreatic cancer is a challenging disease with a high mortality rate. While the importance of crosstalk between cancer and immune cells has been well documented, the understanding of this complex molecular network is incomplete. Thus, identification of the secreted proteins contributing to the immunosuppressive microenvironment in pancreatic cancer is crucial for effective diagnosis and/or therapy. We utilized a public microarray dataset (GSE16515) from the Gene Expression Omnibus database to identify genes for secreted proteins in pancreatic cancer. RT-PCR and ELISA of the pancreatic cancer cell lines validated the cellular origin of the selected genes. For functional assay of the selected proteins, we utilized human-monocyte-derived dendritic cells (DCs). From the list of the secreted p

SUBMITTER: Sung GH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6282439 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature