Nature Communications (May 2022)

N6-methyladenosine regulated FGFR4 attenuates ferroptotic cell death in recalcitrant HER2-positive breast cancer

  • Yutian Zou,
  • Shaoquan Zheng,
  • Xinhua Xie,
  • Feng Ye,
  • Xiaoqian Hu,
  • Zhi Tian,
  • Shu-Mei Yan,
  • Lu Yang,
  • Yanan Kong,
  • Yuhui Tang,
  • Wenwen Tian,
  • Jindong Xie,
  • Xinpei Deng,
  • Yan Zeng,
  • Zhe-Sheng Chen,
  • Hailin Tang,
  • Xiaoming Xie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30217-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Anti-HER2 resistance causes treatment failure in HER2-positive breast cancers. Here the authors identify FGFR4 as one of the vulnerabilities of anti-HER2 resistant breast cancer and show that FGRR4 inhibition enhances sensitivity to anti-HER2 treatment in these resistant cells by triggering ferroptosis.