PMID- 35986321 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20220826 IS - 1475-2867 (Print) IS - 1475-2867 (Electronic) IS - 1475-2867 (Linking) VI - 22 IP - 1 DP - 2022 Aug 19 TI - Anti-cancer therapeutic strategies based on HGF/MET, EpCAM, and tumor-stromal cross talk. PG - 259 LID - 10.1186/s12935-022-02658-z [doi] LID - 259 AB - As an intelligent disease, tumors apply several pathways to evade the immune system. It can use alternative routes to bypass intracellular signaling pathways, such as nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB), Wnt, and mitogen-activated protein (MAP)/phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR). Therefore, these mechanisms lead to therapeutic resistance in cancer. Also, these pathways play important roles in the proliferation, survival, migration, and invasion of cells. In most cancers, these signaling pathways are overactivated, caused by mutation, overexpression, etc. Since numerous molecules share these signaling pathways, the identification of key molecules is crucial to achieve favorable consequences in cancer therapy. One of the key molecules is the mesenchymal-epithelial transition factor (MET; c-Met) and its ligand hepatocyte growth factor (HGF). Another molecule is the epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM), which its binding is hemophilic. Although both of them are involved in many physiologic processes (especially in embryonic stages), in some cancers, they are overexpressed on epithelial cells. Since they share intracellular pathways, targeting them simultaneously may inhibit substitute pathways that tumor uses to evade the immune system and resistant to therapeutic agents. CI - (c) 2022. The Author(s). FAU - Barzaman, Khadijeh AU - Barzaman K AD - Recombinant Proteins Department, Breast Cancer Research Center, Motamed Cancer Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran. AD - Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Vafaei, Rana AU - Vafaei R AD - Recombinant Proteins Department, Breast Cancer Research Center, Motamed Cancer Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran. AD - Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Samadi, Mitra AU - Samadi M AD - Recombinant Proteins Department, Breast Cancer Research Center, Motamed Cancer Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Kazemi, Mohammad Hossein AU - Kazemi MH AD - Recombinant Proteins Department, Breast Cancer Research Center, Motamed Cancer Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran. AD - ATMP Department, Breast Cancer Research Center, Motamed Cancer Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Hosseinzadeh, Aysooda AU - Hosseinzadeh A AD - Recombinant Proteins Department, Breast Cancer Research Center, Motamed Cancer Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Merikhian, Parnaz AU - Merikhian P AD - Recombinant Proteins Department, Breast Cancer Research Center, Motamed Cancer Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Moradi-Kalbolandi, Shima AU - Moradi-Kalbolandi S AD - Recombinant Proteins Department, Breast Cancer Research Center, Motamed Cancer Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Eisavand, Mohammad Reza AU - Eisavand MR AD - Recombinant Proteins Department, Breast Cancer Research Center, Motamed Cancer Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Dinvari, Houra AU - Dinvari H AD - Recombinant Proteins Department, Breast Cancer Research Center, Motamed Cancer Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Farahmand, Leila AU - Farahmand L AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4548-3424 AD - Recombinant Proteins Department, Breast Cancer Research Center, Motamed Cancer Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran. laylafarahmand@gmail.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20220819 PL - England TA - Cancer Cell Int JT - Cancer cell international JID - 101139795 PMC - PMC9389806 OTO - NOTNLM OT - EpCAM OT - HGF/MET OT - MAP/PI3K/mTOR OT - NF-kappaB OT - Wnt COIS- The authors declare no competing interests. EDAT- 2022/08/20 06:00 MHDA- 2022/08/20 06:01 PMCR- 2022/08/19 CRDT- 2022/08/19 23:37 PHST- 2021/09/08 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/07/19 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/08/19 23:37 [entrez] PHST- 2022/08/20 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/08/20 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2022/08/19 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1186/s12935-022-02658-z [pii] AID - 2658 [pii] AID - 10.1186/s12935-022-02658-z [doi] PST - epublish SO - Cancer Cell Int. 2022 Aug 19;22(1):259. doi: 10.1186/s12935-022-02658-z.