Zooming in on selectins in cancer

Sci Transl Med. 2016 Jun 29;8(345):345fs11. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aag1802.

¹ Laboratory of Precision NanoMedicine, Department of Cell Research and Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering, The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
² Laboratory of Precision NanoMedicine, Department of Cell Research and Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering, The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. peer@tauex.tau.ac.il.

Abstract

Selectins are involved in leukocyte and cancer cell trafficking, which can be targeted with drugs and nanoparticles (Shamay et al., this issue).