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SUBMITTER: Zucha MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4537012 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zucha Muhammad Ary MA Wu Alexander T H AT Lee Wei-Hwa WH Wang Liang-Shun LS Lin Wan-Wan WW Yuan Chiou-Chung CC Yeh Chi-Tai CT
Oncotarget 20150501 15
According to a Prognoscan database, upregulation of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk) is associated with low overall survival in ovarian cancer patients. We found that spheroids-forming ovarian cancer cell, which highly expressed cancer stem-like cell (CSC) markers and Btk, were cisplatin resistant. We next treated CSCs and non-CSCs by a combination of ibrutinib and cisplatin. We found that chemoresistance was dependent on Btk and JAK2/STAT3, which maintained CSC by inducing Sox-2 and prosurvival g ...[more]