Expression and function of epithelial cell adhesion molecule EpCAM: where are we after 40 years?

O Gires, M Pan, H Schinke, M Canis… - Cancer and Metastasis …, 2020 - Springer
EpCAM (epithelial cell adhesion molecule) was discovered four decades ago as a tumor
antigen on colorectal carcinomas. Owing to its frequent and high expression on carcinomas …

Antibody‐incorporated nanomedicines for cancer therapy

SY Wu, FG Wu, X Chen - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Antibody‐based cancer therapy, one of the most significant therapeutic strategies, has
achieved considerable success and progress over the past decades. Nevertheless …

[HTML][HTML] Epithelial cell adhesion molecule: an anchor to isolate clinically relevant circulating tumor cells

In the last few decades, the epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) has received
increased attention as the main membrane marker used in many enrichment technologies to …

Targeting cancer stem cells to overcome chemoresistance

T Nunes, D Hamdan, C Leboeuf… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Cancers are heterogeneous at the cell level, and the mechanisms leading to cancer
heterogeneity could be clonal evolution or cancer stem cells. Cancer stem cells are resistant …

Combination therapy with EpCAM‐CAR‐NK‐92 cells and regorafenib against human colorectal cancer models

Q Zhang, H Zhang, J Ding, H Liu, H Li… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Adoptive chimeric antigen receptor‐modified T or NK cells (CAR‐T or CAR‐NK) offer new
options for cancer treatment. CAR‐T therapy has achieved encouraging breakthroughs in …

Epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) regulates HGFR signaling to promote colon cancer progression and metastasis

CC Lee, CJ Yu, SS Panda, KC Chen, KH Liang… - Journal of Translational …, 2023 - Springer
Background Epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) is known to highly expression and
promotes cancer progression in many cancer types, including colorectal cancer. While …

EpCAM signaling promotes tumor progression and protein stability of PD-L1 through the EGFR pathway

HN Chen, KH Liang, JK Lai, CH Lan, MY Liao… - Cancer research, 2020 - AACR
Although epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) has previously been shown to promote
tumor progression, the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown. Here, we report …

Concise review: aggressive colorectal cancer: role of epithelial cell adhesion molecule in cancer stem cells and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition

M Boesch, G Spizzo, A Seeber - Stem cells translational …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common malignancies worldwide. In spite of
various attempts to ameliorate outcome by escalating treatment, significant improvement is …

Extracellular domain of EpCAM enhances tumor progression through EGFR signaling in colon cancer cells

KH Liang, HC Tso, SH Hung, II Kuan, JK Lai, FY Ke… - Cancer letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) is highly expressed in colon cancers, but its role
in cancer progression remains to be elucidated. In this work, we found that the extracellular …

Shedding light on the EpCAM: an overview

SM Yahyazadeh Mashhadi… - Journal of cellular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) is a Type I transmembrane superficial
glycoprotein antigen that is expressed on the surface of basolateral membrane of multiple …