www.oncotarget.com Oncotarget, 2018, Vol. 9, (No. 51), pp: 29601-29618 Research Paper LMO1 functions as an oncogene by regulating TTK expression and correlates with neuroendocrine differentiation of lung cancer Liqin Du1, Zhenze Zhao1, Milind Suraokar2, Spencer S. Shelton1, Xiuye Ma3, Tzu-Hung Hsiao4, John D. Minna5, Ignacio Wistuba2,6 and Alexander Pertsemlidis3,7 1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, USA 2Departments of Pathology and Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA 3Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA 4Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan 5Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research and Departments of Pharmacology and Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA 6Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA 7Departments of Pediatrics and Cell Systems & Anatomy, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA Correspondence to: Liqin Du, email:
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[email protected] Keywords: LMO1; lung cancer; neuroendocrine; TTK Received: February 07, 2017 Accepted: May 24, 2018 Published: July 03, 2018 Copyright: Du 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 LMO1 encodes a protein containing a cysteine-rich LIM domain involved in protein–protein interactions. Recent studies have shown that LMO1 functions as an oncogene in several cancer types, including non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).