Expression of pH-Sensitive TRPC4 in Common Skin Tumors

TRPCs (transient receptor potential classical or cation channels) play a crucial role in tumor biology, especially in the Ca2+ homeostasis in cancer cells. TRPC4 is a pH-sensitive member of this family of proteins. As solid tumors exhibit an inversed pH-gradient with lowered extracellular and increased intracellular pH, both contributing to tumor progression, TRPC4 might be a signaling molecule in the altered tumor microenvironment. This is the first study to investigate the expression profiles of TRPC4 in common skin cancers such as basal cell carcinoma (BCC), squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), malignant melanoma (MM) and nevus cell nevi (NCN). We found that all SCCs, NCNs, and MMs show positive TRPC4-expression, while BCCs do only in about half of the analyzed samples. These data render TRPC4 an immunohistochemical marker to distinguish SCC and BCC, and this also gives rise to future studies investigating the role of TRPC4 in tumor progression, and especially metastasis as BCCs very rarely spread and are mostly negative for TRPC4.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

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International journal of molecular sciences - 24(2023), 2 vom: 05. Jan.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kurz, Bernadett [VerfasserIn]
Michael, Hannah Philine [VerfasserIn]
Förch, Antonia [VerfasserIn]
Wallner, Susanne [VerfasserIn]
Zeman, Florian [VerfasserIn]
Decking, Sonja-Maria [VerfasserIn]
Ugele, Ines [VerfasserIn]
Hintschich, Constantin [VerfasserIn]
Haubner, Frank [VerfasserIn]
Ettl, Tobias [VerfasserIn]
Renner, Kathrin [VerfasserIn]
Brochhausen, Christoph [VerfasserIn]
Schreml, Stephan [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Basal cell carcinoma
Journal Article
Melanoma
Skin tumors
Squamous cell carcinoma
TRPC4

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Date Completed 24.01.2023

Date Revised 01.02.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/ijms24021037

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM351852700