Moreover, novel correlations were found between ANGPTL4 and the inflammatory markers, IL-1β and NF-κB/p65, in breast cancer, which may emphasize the utility of these markers as potential tools for understanding interactions for axes of carcinogenesis and inflammation contributed for cancer progression.
Recently, HIFs have been shown to play critical roles in the metastasis of breast cancer to the lungs through the transcriptional activation of genes encoding angiopoietin-like 4 and L1 cell adhesion molecule, which promote the extravasation of circulating cancer cells from the lung vasculature, and the lysyl oxidase family members LOX, LOXL2, and LOXL4, which promote invasion and metastatic niche formation.
Also in humans, ANGPTL4 was unmethylated and expressed in normal mammary epithelial cells, but was methylated in 11 of 91 (12%) primary breast cancers.