Interaction of immune checkpoint PD-1 and chemokine receptor 4 (CXCR4) promotes a malignant phenotype in pancreatic cancer cells

• Megan M. Harper,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2935-6292

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• Miranda Lin,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

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• Michael J. Cavnar,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

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• Prakash K. Pandalai,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2729-0058

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• Reema A. Patel,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Medical Oncology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8650-6122

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• Mei Gao ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

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• Joseph Kim

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: joseph.kim@uky.edu

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

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