A role for angiopoietin-2 in organ-specific metastasis.
Rigamonti NThe Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research ISREC, School of Life Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
English
Angiopoietin-2 (ANG2/ANGPT2) has recently emerged as a promising target for the inhibition of tumor metastasis. In this issue of Cell Reports, Minami et al. show that the calcineurin-NFAT pathway promotes pulmonary tumor metastasis by inducing ANG2 in the lung endothelium.