Identifiers
LIF, interleukin 6 family cytokine
HUGO:LIF hgnc_id:HGNC:6596 HGNC:6596 ENTREZ:3976 UNIPROT:P15018
Maps_Modules
HMC:TUMOR_PROMOTING_INFLAMMATION
HMC:ACTIVATING_INVASION_AND_METASTASIS
Cancer Associated Fibroblasts / INFLAMMATORY_SIGNALING_PATHWAYS
Cancer Associated Fibroblasts / CYTOKINES_CHEMOKINES_PRODUCTION
References
CASCADE:TGFB
CASCADE:IL1
CASCADE:TNF
CASCADE:LIF
PMID:24857661
LIF mediates TGF-??-dependent actomyosin contractility and extracellular matrix remodeling,
LIF as the major cytokine mediating STAT3 phosphorylation upon TGF-??1 stimulation.
TGF-??1 relies on a LIF/GP130-IL6ST/JAK1 signaling cascade to induce STAT3 activation.
LIF signaling mediates onset of a proinvasive microenvironment by proinvasive fibroblast activation and actomyosin contractility regulation independent of ??-SMA expression.