YCW Lab

 Cancer Biology/tumor-immunology Lab

Dr. Yi-Ching Wang's laboratory has a long-standing research interest on the molecular mechanisms involved in lung tumorigenesis. Her group investigates the etiological association of alterations in tumor suppressor genes and oncogenes with lung tumorigenesis. Dr. Wang has continued to do research on cancer genomics and epigenomics of DNA methylation and chromatin alteration profiles for identification of new genes critical to lung tumorigenesis. More recently, Dr. Wang focuses on the role of Rab37 small GTPase in regulation of exocytosis and malfunction of Rab37 in tumorigenesis and tumor microenvironment. In addition, Dr. Wang's group investigates the underlying mechanisms of NRF2 antioxidant transcription factor in cancer progression and drug resistance. Several potential anti-cancer drugs and antibodies also are developing in her laboratory.

- Latest Research -

Fully human chitinase-3 like-1 monoclonal antibody inhibits tumor growth, fibrosis, angiogenesis, and immune cell remodeling in lung, pancreatic, and colorectal cancers

Source: Biomed Pharmacother. 2024 May 30:176:116825.

doi: 10.1016/j.biopha.2024.116825.

Pei-Chia Su, Ching-Yu Chen, Min-Hua Yu, I-Ying Kuo, Pei-Shan Yang, Ching-Hsuan Hsu, Ya-Chin Hou, Hsin-Ta Hsieh, Chih-Peng Chang, Yan-Shen Shan, Yi-Ching Wang


Rab37 mediates trafficking and membrane presentation of PD-1 to sustain T cell exhaustion in lung cancer

Source: Cell Death Dis. 2024 May 22;15(5):356.

doi: 10.1038/s41419-024-06746-y.

You-En Yang, Meng-Hsuan Hu, Yen-Chen Zeng, Yau-Lin Tseng, Ying-Yung Chen, Wu-Chou Su, Chih-Peng Chang, Yi-Ching Wang


Rab37 mediates trafficking and membrane presentation of PD-1 to sustain T cell exhaustion in lung cancer

Source: J Biomed Sci. 2024 Feb 7;31(1):20

doi: 10.1186/s12929-024-01009-6.

Wan-Ting Kuo, I-Ying Kuo, Hung-Chia Hsieh, Ssu-Ting Wu, Wu-Chou Su, Yi-Ching Wang


Dysregulation of SOX17/NRF2 axis confers chemoradiotherapy resistance and emerges as a novel therapeutic target in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Source: J Biomed Sci. 2022 Oct 30;29(1):90.

doi: 10.1186/s12929-022-00873-4.

Chih-Hsiung Hsieh, Wen-Hui Kuan, Wei-Lun Chang, I-Ying Kuo, Hsun Liu, Dar-Bin Shieh, Hsuan Liu, Bertrand Tan & Yi-Ching Wang


Recent advances in conventional and unconventional vesicular secretion pathways in the tumor microenvironment 

Source: J Biomed Sci. 2022 Aug 5;29(1):56. 

doi: 10.1186/s12929-022-00837-8.

I.‑Ying Kuo, Chih‑Hsiung Hsieh, Wan‑Ting Kuo, Chih‑Peng Chang* and Yi‑Ching Wang*


Targeting protumor factor chitinase-3-like-1 secreted by Rab37 vesicles for cancer immunotherapy

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Source: Theranostics 2022; 12(1): 340-361.

doi: 10.7150/thno.65522

Pei-Shan Yang*, Min-Hua Yu*, Ya-Chin Hou*, Chih-Peng Chang, Shao-Chieh Lin, I-Ying Kuo, Pei-Chia Su, Hung-Chi Cheng, Wu-Chou Su, Yan-Shen Shan, Yi-Ching Wang.


An innovative NRF2 nano-modulator induces lung cancer ferroptosis and elicits an immunostimulatory tumor microenvironment

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Source: Theranostics 2021; 11(14): 7072-7091. 

doi: 10.7150/thno.57803

Chih-Hsiung Hsieh*, Hung-Chia Hsieh*, Fu-Shiuan Shih*, Pei-Wen Wang, Li-Xing Yang, Dar-Bin Shieh, Yi-Ching Wang.


Converged Rab37/IL-6 trafficking and STAT3/PD-1 transcription axes elicit an immunosuppressive lung tumor microenvironment

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Source: Theranostics 2021; 11(14): 7029-7044.

doi: 10.7150/thno.60040

I-Ying Kuo, You-En Yang, Pei-Shan Yang, Yu-Jou Tsai, Hong-Tai Tzeng, Hung-Chi Cheng, Wan-Ting Kuo, Wu-Chou Su, Chih-Peng Chang, Yi-Ching Wang.


Dysregulated Kras/YY1/ZNF322A/Shh transcriptional axis enhances neo-angiogenesis to promote lung cancer progression 

Source: Theranostics, 10(22),p 10001-10015. (2020) 

doi: 10.7150/thno.47491

Che-Chung Lin, I-Ying Kuo, Li-Ting Wu, Wen-Hui Kuan, Sheng-You Liao, Jayu Jen, You-En Yang, Cheng-Wei Tang, Yi-Rong Chen, Yi-Ching Wang.


ST2 Signaling in the Tumor Microenvironment

Source: Tumor Microenvironment pp 83-93 (2020)

doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-38315-2_7 

Chih-Peng Chang, Meng-Hsuan Hu, Yu-Peng Hsiao, Yi-Ching Wang.


AKT-mediated phosphorylation enhances protein stability and transcription activity of ZNF322A to promote lung cancer progression

Source: Oncogene volume 38, p6723-6736 (2019) 

doi: 10.1038/s41388-019-0928-x

Sheng-You Liao, I-Ying Kuo, Yu-Ting Chen, Pao-Chi Liao, Ya-Fen Liu, Hsin-Yi Wu, Wu-Wei Lai & Yi-Ching Wang.


SOX17 overexpression sensitizes chemoradiation response in esophageal cancer by transcriptional down-regulation of DNA repair and damage response genes.

Source:  Journal of biomedical science. Vol. 26, No. 1. (2019)

doi: 10.1186/s12929-019-0510-4

I-Ying Kuo, Yu-Lin Huang, Chien-Yu Lin, Chien-Hsun Lin, Wei-Lun Chang, Wu-Wei Lai, Yi-Ching Wang


Oncogenic zinc finger protein ZNF322A promotes stem cell-like properties in lung cancer through transcriptional suppression of c-Myc expression

Source: Cell Death & Differentiation vol 26, p 1283-1298 (2018)

doi: 10.1038/s41418-018-0204-6

Jayu Jen, Chun-Yen Liu, Yu-Ting Chen, Li-Ting Wu, Yang-Chih Shieh, Wu-Wei Lai, Yi-Ching Wang  


Rab37 mediates exocytosis of secreted frizzled-related protein 1 to inhibit Wnt signaling and thus suppress lung cancer stemness

Source: Cell Death & Disease vol 9: 868 (2018) 

doi: 10.1038/s41419-018-0915-0

Shu-Huei Cho, I-Ying Kuo, Pei-Jung Frank Lu, Hong-Tai Tzeng, Wu-Wei Lai, Wu-Chou Su, Yi-Ching Wang

Our work is supported by:

YCW lab, No. 1 University Road, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
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