The role of CXCR4 in multiple myeloma: Cells’ journey from bone marrow to beyond
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CXCR4 is a pleiotropic chemokine receptor which acts through its ligand CXCL12 to regulate diverse physiological processes. CXCR4/CXCL12 axis plays a pivotal role in proliferation, invasion, dissemination and drug resistance in multiple myeloma (MM). Apart from its role in homing, CXCR4 also affects MM cell mobilization and egression out of the bone marrow (BM) which is correlated with distant organ metastasis. Aberrant CXCR4 expression pattern is associated with osteoclastogenesis and tumor growth in MM through its cross talk with various important cell signalling pathways. A deeper insight into understanding of CXCR4 mediated signalling pathways and its role in MM is essential to identify potential therapeutic interventions. The current therapeutic focus is on disrupting the interaction of MM cells with its protective tumor microenvironment where CXCR4 axis plays an essential role. There are still multiple challenges that need to be overcome to target CXCR4 axis more efficiently and to identify novel combination therapies with existing strategies. This review highlights the role of CXCR4 along with its significant interacting partners as a mediator of MM pathogenesis and summarizes the targeted therapies carried out so far.
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Mesenchymal stem cells from multiple myeloma patients increase the expression of CXCL12, a chemokine essential for the homing of myeloma cells to the bone marrow, which contributes to the acceleration of disease progression.
“Ullah et al. [32]. conducted a study indicating that MSCs from MM patients increase the expression of CXCL12, a chemokine essential for the homing of myeloma cells to the bone marrow, which contributes to the acceleration of disease progression.”
From Mesenchymal stromal cells in bone marrow niche of patients with multiple myeloma: a double-edged sword (2025) · cites this paper as Ullah et al. [32]
The figure caption in “Role of CXCR4 in progression of Myeloma and distant metastasis” (page unavailable) says CXCL12 expression by bone-marrow stromal cells increases after myeloma-cell adherence and promotes homing. The paper does not specify that the cells were obtained from myeloma patients or present this as a study conducted by Ullah et al.; it discusses the CXCR4/CXCL12 pathway in relation to progression rather than demonstrating that this particular increase accelerates disease progression. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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- Authors
- Ullah, T. R.
- Affiliations
- Hudson Institute of Medical Research (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Ullah, Tomalika Rahmat
- Venue
- Journal of Bone Oncology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-08
- Volume
- 17
- Pages
- 100253
- ISSN
- 2212-1366 (ISSN-L)
- 2212-1374
- PMC
- PMC6658931
- OpenAlex
- W2958089272
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- 2.59
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- en
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- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Hematology › Multiple Myeloma Research and Treatments
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Chemokine receptors and signaling
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Genetics › Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research
- Keywords
- CXCR4, multiple myeloma, CXCL12, chemokine signaling, bone marrow homing, metastasis, drug resistance, osteoclastogenesis, tumor microenvironment, signaling pathways, targeted therapy
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