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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 10.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Lett. 2013 Apr 10;338(1):110–119. doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2013.03.035

Table 1.

Summary of putative gastric stem/progenitor cells and cancer stem cell markers

Markers Location and function References
Normal stomach Gastric cancer
Villin promoter Gland base, antrum of mouse stomach and give rise to all cell types (lineage tracing).
Normally quiescent, multiply in response to interferon gamma
n/t Qiao et al. [45]
Lgr5 Base of pyloric gland, give rise to all cell types (lineage tracing) Luminal surface, tumor center and invasion front (Immunostaining, 100 GC patients analyzed) Barker et al. [26]
Simon et al. [83]
Mist1 Mature chief cells of corpus gland base in mice and human Give rise to SPEM (lineage tracing using 3 mouse models of oxyntic atrophy (induced by DMP-777 treatment, L-635 treatment, or H felis infection) Present in the preneoplastic states (normal & gastritis) and lost in neoplasia in human Ramsey et al. [50]
Nam et al. [49]
Lennerz et al. [111]
TFF2 Isthmus region of corpus, gland base (mRNA expression) in mice, give rise to neck, chief and parietal cells only (lineage tracing) Expressed in SPEM following DMP-777 treatment, due to trans-differentiation of chief cells
progressive loss of expression in H pylori-positive gastritis, IM and GC in human and mice
Quante et al. [47]
Peterson et al. [112]
DCKL1/DCAM KL1 Isthmus region of corpus (immunostaining) Expression expanded in murine models of acute gastritis, chronic ulcer and in Kras environment Giannakis et al. [44]
Zhang and Huang [97]
Kikuchi et al. [98]
Okumura et al. [99]
Musashi-1 Isthmus/neck region of antrum in human stomach (Immunohistochemistry) Weakly expressed
Elevated in gastric lesions and invasive GCs
Akasaka et al. [43]
Wang et al. [110]
Sox2 1 and 2 cells above the base of corpus and antrum in mice stomach, give rise to cells in both the corpus and pylorus (lineage tracing) Expression associated with invasion and lymph node metastasis in GC (Immunostaining, 290 GC patients analyzed) Arnold et al. [51]
Matsuoka et al. [100]
Sox9 Weak expression in neck/isthmus of corpus, moderate expression in neck/isthmus of pylorus (immunostaining) strong expression observed in GC (46 patients analyzed by immunostaining) Sashikawa Kimura et al. [101]
pSmad2/3L-Thr Small number of cells in the corpus and antrum, isthmus region (immunostaining) Significantly increased in the corpus and antrum of mice with Helicobacter-associated gastritis Fukui et al. [102]
Agr2 (anterior gradient 2) Corpus neck and base of antrum gland (immunstaining) Involve in the development of neoplasia Gupta et al. [103]
Bmi-1 Weak to moderate expression in pits and isthmus of corpus and neck region of antrum Strong expression in GC (immunostaining) Reinisch et al. [104]
Oct4 Isthmus region of pit gland, pyloric antrum of human stomach (immunostaining) Increased expression in GC Al-Marzoqee et al. [105]
CD44 Strong expression in lower glandular cells of the gastric antrum and rare expression in corpus Strong expression GC (isolated cells from cancer cell lines and mouse and human gastric samples produce spheroid colonies, and show tumorigenicity) Takaishi et al. [86]
Wang et al. [110]
CD71− cell n/t Show higher tumorigenicity and multipotency, highly invasive and to exist in the invasive fronts of cancer foci Ohkuma et al. [94]
CD133 Base of gastric glands, antrum Strong expression in GC, expressed on the luminal surface membrane of gland- forming cells (patient samples) Zhao et al. [106]
Qiao and Gumucio [31]
Fukamachi et al. [107]
Jiang et al. [92]
Aldh1 Cytoplasm of parietal cells (patient samples-immunostaining) Highly expressed in GC, basal lesion of the metaplastic gland Zhi et al. [149]
Wakamatsu et al. [108]
Nishikawa et al. [109]
EpCAM+/CD44+ n/t Isolated cells produce spheroid colonies, and show tumorigenicity Han et al. [90]
CD44+CD24+ n/t Isolated cells from gastric tissues of patients produce spheroid colonies, and show tumorigenicity Zhang et al. [87]
CD44+CD54+ n/t Isolated cells from human gastric tumor tissues and peripheral blood of patients produce spheroid colonies, and show tumorigenicity Chen et al. [89]
CD90 n/t Isolated cells from gastric primary tumors produce spheroid colonies, and show tumorigenicity Jiang et al. [92]
ABCB1 n/t Highly expressed in poorly differentiated GC Jiang et al. [92]
ABCG2 n/t Highly expressed in poorly differentiated GC Jiang et al. [92]