An increasing body of evidence supports that the cytoplasmic transcription factor STAT3 (signal transducer and activator of transcription 3) is activated constitutively in a variety of cancers wherein it significantly affects the growth of tumors and also facilitates metastasis.
We stably silence the expression of the STAT3 and p-STAT3 by using RNA interference (RNAi) in the pancreatic cancer cell line SW1990, and then reduce its invasion capacity in vitro and metastasis capacity in vivo compared to parental cells or cells tansfected with a control vector.
Our results suggest that Stat3 is involved in the motility, metastasis and progression in human lingual squamous cell carcinoma, and thus, it may be a therapeutic target for human lingual squamous cell carcinoma.
Notably, expression levels of MAGEC2 and phosphorylated STAT3 are positively correlated and both are associated with incidence of metastasis in human hepatocellular carcinoma.
It has been shown that overexpression of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (Stat3) contribute to the progression and metastasis of various solid tumors and that silencing Stat3 inhibits tumor growth in several types of cancer.
Constitutively activated STAT3 plays a pivotal role in holding cancer stemness of HCC CSCs, which are essential for hepatoma initiation, relapse, metastasis and drug resistance.
Here, we focus on the role of STAT3 in breast cancer progression, discussing the potential contrasting roles of STAT3 activation in the establishment of locally recurrent and distant metastatic disease.
Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) is involved in the tumor growth and metastasis of human head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) and is therefore a target with therapeutic potential.
We confirmed that inhibitory effect of TJE on the abnormal metastasis using invasion assay and 3D cell culture method, as well as the inhibition of EGFR signaling pathway, co-binding with Stat3 and dimer formation for translocation to the nucleus.
The Th-<i>MYCN</i><sup>CPM32</sup> model therefore is a useful tool to dissect in detail mechanisms that drive metastasis and chemoresistance, and highlights dysregulation of signaling pathways such as JAK-STAT3 that could be targeted to improve treatment of aggressive disease.
These findings identify CXCR7-mediated STAT3 activation and modulation of the tumor microenvironment as novel regulation of breast cancer growth and metastasis.
These results suggest that the phosphorylation of STAT3 regulates MMP-9 production in ovarian cancer, which might be responsible for its invasiveness and metastasis.
Our findings indicate that Stat3 oncogenic activities could also be mediated through its cooperation with c-Jun, resulting in downregulation of Fas surface expression, which is implicated in the tumor's ability to resist therapy and metastasize.
Taken together, LINC81507 is decreased in NSCLC and functions as a sponge to miR-199b-5p to regulate CAV1/STAT3 pathway, which suggests that LINC81507 serve as a tumor suppressor and potential therapeutic target and biomarker for metastasis and prognosis in NSCLC.
Moreover, in therapeutic proof-of-concept studies, these nanoparticles were effective in silencing the expression of two proteins that are key to cancer growth and metastasis (signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 and focal adhesion kinase) in orthotopic mouse models of ovarian and colorectal cancer.
The BCSC-enriched populations exhibited enhanced metastasis with higher STAT3 activation, while FLU administration inhibited tumor growth, angiogenesis and lung and liver metastasis, coinciding with decreased MMP-2 and MMP-9 levels in circulating blood.
Collectively, these results suggest that HCV core would play a role in hepatocellular carcinoma invasiveness and metastasis by activating the STAT3 pathway, increasing Snail expression and subsequently triggering EMT.
In this brief review article, the author has searched PubMed and Wikipedia for original research and reviewed articles to gather current information on the association of CSCs and EMT with therapeutic resistance characteristics, cancer growth and metastasis, which are believed to be regulated by the TGF-β, Wnt, Hedgehog (Hh), β-catenin, STAT3, Notch, and Nanog signalling pathways and other factors (miRNAs, microenvironment and additional cytokines).
Stimulated by proinflammatory cytokines, NF-κB and STAT3 can modulate the expression of target genes, most of which are oncogenic ones, and promote the survival, proliferation, invasion, and metastasis of cancer cells.