| Literature DB >> 22700442 |
Kazuhiro Nakamura1, Koji Igarashi, Ryunosuke Ohkawa, Hiromitsu Yokota, Akiko Masuda, Shunsuke Nakagawa, Tetsu Yano, Hitoshi Ikeda, Junken Aoki, Yutaka Yatomi.
Abstract
Autotaxin (ATX) is a glycoprotein that was first identified in the conditioned medium of human melanoma cells as an autocrine motility factor. It possesses lysophospholipase D activity, producing the bioactive lipid mediator lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) from lysophosphatidylcholine. Enhanced expression of ATX mRNA has been reported in various cancer cells and tissues, and it has been speculated that ATX overexpression in cancer cells may be associated with aberrant LPA production. LPA and ATX have been implicated in cancer progression and metastasis, and ovarian cancer is a representative example. In the present study, we measured the serum ATX antigen levels in patients with ovarian cancer and evaluated the usefulness of this parameter for clinical laboratory testing. The serum ATX antigen levels were not increased in ovarian cancer patients as compared with the levels in healthy subjects, and the serum ATX may not be useful as a biomarker for ovarian cancer.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID： 22700442 DOI： 10.1007/s11745-012-3691-0
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Lipids ISSN： 0024-4201 Impact factor: 1.880