www.impactjournals.com/oncotarget/ Oncotarget, 2017, Vol. 8, (No. 24), pp: 39033-39047 Research Paper Wnt5a and CCL25 promote adult T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell migration, invasion and metastasis Xinzhou Deng1,2,*, Zhenbo Tu1,*, Meng Xiong1,*, Kingsley Tembo1, Lu Zhou3, Pan Liu1, Shan Pan1, Jie Xiong1, Xiangyong Yang4, Jun Leng1, Qian Zhang5, Ruijing Xiao1 and Qiuping Zhang1,6 1Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China 2Department of Clinical Oncology, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, Hubei, China 3Department of Hematology, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, Hubei, China 4Department of Biochemical Engineering, Hubei University of Technology Engineering and Technology College, Wuhan, Hubei, China 5Department of Hematology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China 6Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Developmentally Originated Disease, Wuhan, Hubei, China *These authors have contributed equally to this work Correspondence to: Qiuping Zhang, email:
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[email protected] Keywords: Wnt5a, CCL25/CCR9, T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, PI3K, RhoA Received: July 20, 2016 Accepted: February 27, 2017 Published: March 25, 2017 Copyright: Deng et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. ABSTRACT Adult T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is a refractory leukemia. We previously showed that CCL25/CCR9 promotes T-ALL metastasis. In the present study, we assessed the effects of CCL25 on Wnt expression and the effects of Wnt5a and CCL25 on PI3K/Akt and RhoA activation.