TGF-β signaling in liver and gastrointestinal cancers

LH Katz, M Likhter, W Jogunoori, M Belkin, K Ohshiro… - Cancer letters, 2016 - Elsevier
… NK cells and stimulates the generation of regulatory T cells … β (tumor suppression) and the
late gene response (tumor promotion) … as in pancreatic and colon cancers, Smad4 and Smad2 …

SMAD4 TGF-β–independent function preconditions naive CD8+ T cells to prevent severe chronic intestinal inflammation

R Igalouzene, H Hernandez-Vargas… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
… functions independently of TGF-β signaling in T cells (17, 18)… to the development of
gastrointestinal cancer lesions in mice … In CD4 + T cells, SMAD4 mediates the repression of the …

Consequences of mutations and abnormal expression of SMAD4 in tumors and T cells

R Wan, J Feng, L Tang - OncoTargets and therapy, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
… of SMAD4 from colorectal cancer cell lines also result in … IL-21, SMAD4 could suppress the
differentiation of Th17 cells, by … b/SMAD4 signaling was important for T cell function, SMAD4

[HTML][HTML] Smad4-deficient T cells promote colitis-associated colon cancer via an IFN-γ-dependent suppression of 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase

SH Choi, AY Huang, JJ Letterio, BG Kim - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… Here we report that in the absence of TGF-β signaling in T cells, the production of proinflammatory
cytokines is significantly increased and IFN-γ expression is down-regulated through a …

[HTML][HTML] TGF-β signaling in liver, pancreas, and gastrointestinal diseases and cancer

NR Gough, X Xiang, L Mishra - Gastroenterology, 2021 - Elsevier
Intestinal cancer Single nucleotide deletion of SMAD4 exon … The T cell–specific SMAD4
knockout models phenocopy … , suppression of TGF-β signaling either in the intestinal cells or the …

[HTML][HTML] The role of TGF-β/SMAD4 signaling in cancer

M Zhao, L Mishra, CX Deng - International journal of biological …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… /SMAD4 signaling pathway plays a tumor suppressive role at early stages, mainly by inducing
cellSMAD4-deficient colorectal tumor cells secreted more CCL9 and CCL15, chemokines …

[HTML][HTML] TGF-beta signaling and its targeted therapy in gastrointestinal cancers

JR Gotovac, KM Fujihara, WA Phillips… - Discovery …, 2018 - discoverymedicine.com
… by specific deletion of SMAD4 within T cells can promote … and SMAD4 as independent tumor
suppressors in gastric cancer. … TGFβ signaling pathway undoubtedly has tumor suppressive

SMAD4 suppresses colitis-associated carcinoma through inhibition of CCL20/CCR6-mediated inflammation

DN Hanna, PM Smith, SV Novitskiy, MK Washington… - Gastroenterology, 2022 - Elsevier
cells, contributing to greater susceptibility to colon cancer. … that SMAD4− UCACs exhibited
an increase in overall T cell … function of SMAD4 to regulation of CCL20/CCR6 signaling, …

The multifaceted role of TGF-β in gastrointestinal tumors

F Sabbadini, M Bertolini, S De Matteis, D Mangiameli… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
… genetic depletion of SMAD4 in colon cancer cells allows TGF-β-… to induce BMP signaling to
switch from tumor suppression to … Infiltrating T cells are activated through signals to the T-cell

[HTML][HTML] Epithelial Smad4 deletion up-regulates inflammation and promotes inflammation-associated cancer

AL Means, TJ Freeman, J Zhu, LG Woodbury… - … Gastroenterology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
… of Smad4 in T cells with intact epithelial expression of Smad4 in … role for TGFβ signaling in
suppressing colonic epithelial cell … UC-associated colon cancers were negative for SMAD4