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Table 2 Colon TIC marker combinations

From: Tumor-Initiating Cells: a criTICal review of isolation approaches and new challenges in targeting strategies

 

assessment of self-renewal

cellular system

Marker combinations

References

In vitro

In vivo

cell lines

patients

mouse

CD166+/CD44+

[Dalerba et al., 2007] 1

 

1✓

 

1

 

EpCAMhigh/CD44+

[Dalerba et al., 2007] 1

[Kai et al., 2009] 2

2✓

1✓

2✓

2

1

 

CD24high/CD29+

[Ghazvini et al., 2013] 1

 

1✓

  

1

CD133+/CD44+

[Haraguchi et al., 2008] 1

[Chen et al., 2011] 2

1✓

1✓

2✓

1

2

1

 

CD133+/CD49f+

[Haraguchi et al., 2013] 1

 

1✓

 

1

 

CD44+/CD49f+

CD24+/CD44+

[Yeung et al., 2010] 1

1✓

1✓

1

  

CD44+/CD133−

[Wang et al., 2012] 1

1✓

 

1

  

CD133+/CD24+

[Vermeulen et al., 2008] 1

1✓

  

1

 

CD133+/CD24-

[Vermeulen et al., 2008] 1

[Haraguchi et al., 2008] 2

1 −

2 −

2 −

2

1

2

 

CD133+/CD44-

CD133+/CD44+

CD133+/CD166-

CD133+/CD166+

CD166+/CD44+

[Muraro et al., 2012] 1

1 −

1 −

1

  

CD24+/CD44+

CD44+/CD166+/EpCAMlow

[Collura et al., 2013] 1

1 −

 

1

  

CD44+/CD166+/EpCAMhigh

CD133+/CD26+/CD44+

CD133+/CD26+/CD44-

[Pang et al., 2010] 1

1✓

1✓

 

1

 

CD133+/CD26-/CD44+

CD133+/CD26-/CD44-

CD133-/CD26+/CD44+

CD133-/CD26+/CD44-

CD133-/CD26-/CD44+

CD133-/CD26-/CD44-

1 −

1 −

 

1

 
  1. ✓: correlation between self-renewal and expression of surface markers
  2. −: no correlation between self-renewal and expression of surface markers