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Retraction Open Access | 10.1172/JCI194718

EGFR phosphorylation of DCBLD2 recruits TRAF6 and stimulates AKT-promoted tumorigenesis

Haizhong Feng, Giselle Y. Lopez, Chung Kwon Kim, Angel Alvarez, Christopher G. Duncan, Ryo Nishikawa, Motoo Nagane, An-Jey A. Su, Philip E. Auron, Matthew L. Hedberg, Lin Wang, Jeffery J. Raizer, John A. Kessler, Andrew T. Parsa, Wei-Qiang Gao, Sung-Hak Kim, Mutsuko Minata, Ichiro Nakano, Jennifer R. Grandis, Roger E. McLendon, Darell D. Bigner, Hui-Kuan Lin, Frank B. Furnari, Webster K. Cavenee, Bo Hu, Hai Yan, and Shi-Yuan Cheng

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Published in Volume 135, Issue 10 on May 15, 2025
J Clin Invest. 2025;135(10):e194718. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI194718.
© 2025 Feng et al. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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EGFR phosphorylation of DCBLD2 recruits TRAF6 and stimulates AKT-promoted tumorigenesis
Haizhong Feng, … , Hai Yan, Shi-Yuan Cheng
Haizhong Feng, … , Hai Yan, Shi-Yuan Cheng
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EGFR phosphorylation of DCBLD2 recruits TRAF6 and stimulates AKT-promoted tumorigenesis

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Aberrant activation of EGFR in human cancers promotes tumorigenesis through stimulation of AKT signaling. Here, we determined that the discoidina neuropilin-like membrane protein DCBLD2 is upregulated in clinical specimens of glioblastomas and head and neck cancers (HNCs) and is required for EGFR-stimulated tumorigenesis. In multiple cancer cell lines, EGFR activated phosphorylation of tyrosine 750 (Y750) of DCBLD2, which is located within a recently identified binding motif for TNF receptor-associated factor 6 (TRAF6). Consequently, phosphorylation of DCBLD2 Y750 recruited TRAF6, leading to increased TRAF6 E3 ubiquitin ligase activity and subsequent activation of AKT, thereby enhancing EGFR-driven tumorigenesis. Moreover, evaluation of patient samples of gliomas and HNCs revealed an association among EGFR activation, DCBLD2 phosphorylation, and poor prognoses. Together, our findings uncover a pathway in which DCBLD2 functions as a signal relay for oncogenic EGFR signaling to promote tumorigenesis and suggest DCBLD2 and TRAF6 as potential therapeutic targets for human cancers that are associated with EGFR activation.

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Haizhong Feng, Giselle Y. Lopez, Chung Kwon Kim, Angel Alvarez, Christopher G. Duncan, Ryo Nishikawa, Motoo Nagane, An-Jey A. Su, Philip E. Auron, Matthew L. Hedberg, Lin Wang, Jeffery J. Raizer, John A. Kessler, Andrew T. Parsa, Wei-Qiang Gao, Sung-Hak Kim, Mutsuko Minata, Ichiro Nakano, Jennifer R. Grandis, Roger E. McLendon, Darell D. Bigner, Hui-Kuan Lin, Frank B. Furnari, Webster K. Cavenee, Bo Hu, Hai Yan, Shi-Yuan Cheng

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Original citation: J Clin Invest. 2014;124(9):3741–3756. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI73093

Citation for this retraction: J Clin Invest. 2025;135(10):e194718. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI194718

Errors were recently identified in Figures 2E, 4A, 5B, and 5C, Supplemental Figure 4A, Supplemental Figure 14, Supplemental Figure 19, and the unedited blot images for Figure 5B. Although the authors have indicated that original source data support the findings in these figure panels, the corresponding authors are retracting the article due to the number of errors.

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