Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS);Universite Paris Descartes;Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM)
发明人:
Gavard, Julie,Galan-Moya, Eva-Maria
申请号：
AU2015233370
公开号：
AU2015233370A1
申请日:
2015.03.20
申请国别(地区):
AU
年份:
2016
代理人:
摘要：
Today, despite current advances in combinatorial therapies such as surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, aggressive cancers remain fatal. Cancer stem-like cells (CSCs) may account for chemotherapy resistance and thus represent a promising therapeutic target. In this context, the present inventors identified essential intracellular pathways favoring the self-renewal and survival of CSCs. More precisely, the present inventors showed that the cytokine co-receptor GP130 acts as a co-receptor for Apelin / APJ signaling and that the interaction of Apelin with APJ/GP130 activates a dual signaling pathway involving the Akt/mTOR and STAT3 transcription factor, thereby promoting CSCs survival and self-renewal. They therefore propose to block these pathways in order to treat patients suffering from tumors containing CSCs, such as glioblastomas. In another aspect, the invention relates to the use of the Apelin expression level for evaluating the survival probability of a subject suffering from glioblastoma.
