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A chemokine receptor that anchors blood cells in the marrow and helps cancer cells home to it; mutated in a third of Waldenström patients and targeted by plerixafor for stem-cell mobilisation. This dossier gathers the 0 products (0 approved), 0 trials, 0 pathways and 0 resistance routes in the corpus that involve it, with external identifiers so it can be joined to UniProt, ChEMBL, Open Targets and the rest of biology.

Biology

G-protein-coupled receptor; CXCL12 binding activates Gαi, PI3K/AKT and MAPK, promoting chemotaxis, survival and retention in stromal niches; truncating C-terminal mutations impair receptor internalisation (WHIM syndrome).

Where it is found
  • Waldenström macroglobulinaemia (30-40% mutation)
  • Myeloma, lymphoma, AML (expression)
  • Breast, prostate and other solid tumours (metastatic homing)
Class: other · Gene: CXCR4 · Facts checked 2026-09-08 · Target page

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How common it is, by cancer

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CancerPrevalenceSource
Waldenström macroglobulinaemia
30-40%
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Query for this target: (TITLE:"CXCR4" OR ABSTRACT:"CXCR4") AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour OR oncology OR carcinoma OR lymphoma OR leukemia OR leukaemia OR myeloma OR sarcoma OR melanoma OR glioma). Results are unfiltered search hits about CXCR4, not a curated reading list.

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