Mammary Cell News Volume 14.22 | Jun 16 2022

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    TOP STORY

    The Risk Variant rs11836367 Contributes to Breast Cancer Onset and Metastasis by Attenuating Wnt Signaling via Regulating NTN4 Expression

    Scientists performed a comprehensive study of noncoding regulatory variants at the NTN4 locus and NTN4 gene in breast cancer etiology.
    [Science Advances]

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    RB Loss Determines Selective Resistance and Novel Vulnerabilities in ER-Positive Breast Cancer Models

    The combination of AURK and WEE1 inhibitors yielded synergistic cell death selectively in RB-deleted ER+ breast cancer cells via apoptosis and yielded profound disease control in vivo.
    [Oncogene]

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    SUFU Suppresses Ferroptosis Sensitivity in Breast Cancer Cells via Hippo/YAP Pathway

    Investigators showed that the Suppressor of fused homolog (SUFU), a critical component in Hedgehog signaling, regulated ferroptosis sensitivity of breast cancer cells.
    [iScience]

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    RhoBTB3 Regulates Proliferation and Invasion of Breast Cancer Cells via Col1a1

    RhoBTB3 mRNA levels were significantly up-regulated in breast cancer tissues as compared to in adjacent normal tissues and RhoBTB3 expression was found to be associated with Col1a1 expression.
    [Molecules and Cells]

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    PSPC1 Is a Potential Prognostic Marker for Hormone-Dependent Breast Cancer Patients and Modulates RNA Processing of ESR1 and SCFD2

    The authors showed that an RNA-binding protein, PSPC1, played a crucial role in ER-positive breast cancer growth through post-transcriptional gene regulation.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    HERC5/IFI16/p53 Signaling Mediates Breast Cancer Cell Proliferation and Migration

    A huge increase of HERC5 expression was found in MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 cells, knockdown of which repressed the cell proliferation and migration.
    [Life Sciences]

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    CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Knockout of Lcn2 in Human Breast Cancer Cell Line MDA-MB-231 Ameliorates Erastin-Mediated Ferroptosis and Increases Cisplatin Vulnerability

    Scientists abrogated lipocalin 2 (Lcn2) expression in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells using the CRISPR/Cas9 technology and evaluated its effect on cellular proliferation, migration, and ferroptotic cell death.
    [Life Sciences]

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    Synergistic Anti-Proliferative Activity of JQ1 and GSK2801 in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

    Target genes were characterized for their expression in the TNBC cell lines to prove the combinatorial effect of JQ1 and GSK2801.
    [BMC Cancer]

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    REVIEWS

    Cellular and Molecular Insights into the Roles of Visfatin in Breast Cancer Cells Plasticity Programs

    Investigators provide cellular and molecular insights into the visfatin-mediated cellular plasticity programs such as epithelial to mesenchymal transition and endothelial to mesenchymal transition, and stemness-associated changes in breast cancer cells.
    [Life Sciences]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    TROPION-Breast02 Phase III Trial of Datopotamab Deruxtecan Initiated in Patients with Previously Untreated Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer

    Daiichi Sankyo announced that the first patient was dosed in the global TROPION-Breast02 Phase III trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of datopotamab deruxtecan versus investigator’s choice of chemotherapy in patients with previously untreated locally recurrent inoperable or metastatic TNBC.
    [Daiichi Sankyo]

    Press Release

    NCI/NIH Award $2 Million to Immunicom to Initiate Clinical Trial Evaluating Breakthrough Immunopheresis® LW-02 Molecular Subtractive Therapy in Refractory ER+/Her2 Breast Cancer

    Immunicom, Inc. has been awarded $2 million by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) to initiate its first US-based clinical trial at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.
    [Immunicom, Inc.]

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    $250,000 Grant to Dr. Paola Marignani to Identify HER2+ Markers

    The Breast Cancer Society of Canada has announced $250,000 in funding to the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University, for a research project led by Dr. Paola Marignani.
    [The Breast Cancer Society of Canada]

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