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SUBMITTER: Kuo HH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5589766 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kuo Huan-Hsien HH Lin Ruey-Jen RJ Hung Jung-Tung JT Hsieh Chung-Bao CB Hung Tsai-Hsien TH Lo Fei-Yun FY Ho Ming-Yi MY Yeh Chau-Ting CT Huang Yen-Lin YL Yu John J Yu Alice L AL
Scientific reports 20170907 1
Cancer may arise from dedifferentiation of mature cells or maturation-arrested stem cells. Previously we reported that definitive endoderm from which liver was derived, expressed Globo H, SSEA-3 and SSEA-4. In this study, we examined the expression of their biosynthetic enzymes, FUT1, FUT2, B3GALT5 and ST3GAL2, in 135 hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tissues by qRT-PCR. High expression of either FUT1 or B3GALT5 was significantly associated with advanced stages and poor outcome. Kaplan Meier surviv ...[more]