Xiayao Diao, Chao Guo, Hanhao Zheng, Ke Zhao, Yuming Luo, Mingjie An, Yan Lin, Jiancheng Chen, Yuanlong Li, Yuting Li, Xuehan Gao, Jiaqi Zhang, Mengxin Zhou, Wenliang Bai, Lei Liu, Guige Wang, Lanjun Zhang, Xiaotian He, Rusi Zhang, Zhihua Li, Changhao Chen, Shanqing Li
Lymph node (LN) metastasis is one of the predominant metastatic routes of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and is considered as a leading cause for the unsatisfactory prognosis of patients. Although lymphangiogenesis is well-recognized as a crucial process in mediating LN metastasis, the regulatory mechanism involving lymphangiogenesis and LN metastasis in NSCLC remains unclear. In this study, we employed high-throughput sequencing to identify a novel circular RNA (circRNA), circTLCD4-RWDD3, which was significantly upregulated in extracellular vesicles (EVs) from LN metastatic NSCLC and was positively associated with deteriorated OS and DFS of patients with NSCLC from multicenter clinical cohort...
November 4, 2023: Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy