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Surface-exposed and soluble calreticulin: conflicting biomarkers for cancer prognosis.
Oncoimmunology - 20 Jul 2020
Kepp Oliver, Liu Peng, Zhao Liwei, Plo Isabelle, Kroemer Guido
Abstract excerpt
Increased exposure of calreticulin (CALR) on malignant cells is associated with therapy-relevant adaptive immune responses and superior therapeutic outcome in solid tumors and haemato-oncological diseases, because surface-exposed CALR acts as an 'eat-me' signal facilitating the phagocytosis of stressed and dying cancer cells by immature dendritic cells, thus favoring antitumor immune responses. On the contrary,...
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