EPCAM, epithelial cell adhesion molecule, 4072

N. diseases: 328; N. variants: 16
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Programmed death ligand-1 (PD-1/PD-L1), matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), EpCAM (Trop1) and Trop2, cancer-testis antigen MAGE-A3, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), folate receptor alpha (FRα), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), and galectin-3 (Gal-3) have all been implicated as crucial factors involved with tumor survival and invasion. 30014686 2020
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE We evaluated sinusoid capillarisation (SC), solitary artery (SA), ductular reaction (DR), stromal invasion and expression of six biomarkers (GPC3, HSP70, GS, CD34, CK19, EpCAM) in a series of 97 cases. 30610005 2019
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE The mycoplasmal membrane protein p37 showed significant correlations with higher histologic stages and vascular invasion and predicted poor disease-free survival of HCC patients. p37-positive CTCs were detected in 42 out of 47 HCC patients (89%). p37-positive circulating cells were also detected in 4 out of 10 healthy donors (40%), and all were epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM)-positive. 30980864 2019
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE The migratory ability of cells expressing low EpCAM levels was studied in transwell invasion assays in vitro and an orthotopic intra-uterine tumor injection model in vivo. 29208367 2018
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE Following this, we examined the effects of GLI3 knockdown on CD44 and ESA expression, colony and sphere formation capability, stem-related gene expression, proliferation and invasion. 30272273 2018
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE A diameter of ≤ 5 cm was associated with EPCAM+, while angiolymphatic invasion was associated with APF+. 30112355 2018
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE However, current CTC assays, which capture CTCs based on expression of epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM), fail to capture cells from de-differentiated tumors and carcinomas undergoing loss of the epithelial phenotype during the invasion/metastatic process. 29366804 2018
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE Using multiple cell lines, we demonstrated that specific ablation of EpCAM resulted in increased ERK pathway activity and SNAI2 expression, migration and invasion, whereas forced expression of EpCAM resulted in decreased ERK pathway activity and SNAI2 expression, migration and invasion. 28192403 2017
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE The number of EpCAM<sup>+</sup>CD44<sup>+</sup> cells in the GC patients was correlated with the disease stage (P=0.0423), the depth of the tumor (P=0.0314) and venous invasion (P=0.0184) in the resected tumor specimens, while the number of EpCAM<sup>+</sup>CD44<sup>-</sup> cells did not correlate with any clinicopathological factors. 28123556 2017
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Upregulation of TET2 in the KDM2A-depleted cells induces the re-activation of two TET downstream tumor suppressor genes, epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) and E-cadherin, and inhibits migration and invasion. 28785073 2017
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE Ep-CAM expression was significantly higher in CRC compared with normal controls, and its overexpression was negatively linked to tumor differentiation, tumor stage, vascular invasion, depth of tumor invasion, lymph node metastasis, distant metastasis, and tumor budding in CRC patients. 28558958 2017
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Being peritumoral EpCAM positive was also significantly associated with a larger tumor size, liver cirrhosis, and more frequent vascular invasion; however, no statistically significant association was observed between CD13 and any clinicopathological features. 28572700 2017
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE A statistically significant association was observed for EpCAM(MT) with advanced tumor stage (p < 0.001), histological grade (p = 0.01), vascular (p < 0.001) and marginal (p = 0.002) invasion. 26996277 2016
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE In resected tumors, high EpCAM expression correlated with lymphovascular invasion status and nuclear grade (P = 0.01 and 0.008, respectively), and was associated with poor pathological and clinical responses (P < 0.001). 27041736 2016
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE Thus, this study was aimed to explore whether MTA1 was able to upregulate EpCAM expression and, consequently, modulate its effects on invasion and migration of the lung cancer cells as well as patients' prognosis. 26698569 2015
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE Loss-of-function experiments were performed to demonstrate that EpCAM negatively regulates expression of p53 and p21, and promotes tumor cell growth, colony formation, migration and invasion. 25652097 2015
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE EpCAM-associated functions relate to cell-cell adhesion, proliferation, maintenance of a pluripotent state, regulation of differentiation, migration, and invasion. 25477371 2015
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Suppressing miR-155 resulted in a decreased EpCAM(+) fraction in HCC cells and reduced HCC cell colony formation, migration, and invasion in vitro. 25953724 2015
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Thus, claudin-7 contributes to motility and invasion and is required for recruiting EpCAM towards TACE/presenilin2. 25514462 2015
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE As EpCAM was silenced in LNCaP, the expression levels of AR and PSA obviously descended, and cellular abilities of proliferation and invasion were obviously inhibited.The overexpression of EpCAM has correlation with the genesis of prostate cancer, especially androgen-dependent prostate cancer. 24705864 2014
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Knock-down or natural loss of EpCAM recapitulated these effects as it reduced proliferation while enhancing migration and invasion of cancer cells. 24141784 2014
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE These studies show for the first time that EpCAM can modulate NF-κB transcription factor activity and IL-8 expression in breast cancer and confirm the role of EpCAM signaling in modulating breast cancer invasion. 23378578 2013
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE CD44(+) CD24(low+) populations contain subsets of ALDH1(+) and ESA(+) cells, yield more frequent spheres and/or T-ISC in limiting dilution assays, preferentially express metastatic gene signatures and show greater motility, invasion and, in the MDA-MB-231 model, metastatic potential. 23982961 2013
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Proteomics revealed that most proteins in EPCAM-positive microparticles were shared with cancer cells, and many are associated with cell motility and invasion, such as fibronectin, filamin A, vimentin, myosin-9, and fibrinogen. 22315094 2012
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.100 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE MDA-MB-231 xenografts with EpCAM overexpression showed reduced invasion into host tissue and more infiltrates of chicken granulocytes. 23110550 2012