Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Transcriptional regulation of autophagy-lysosomal function in BRAF-driven melanoma progression and chemoresistance

  • Shun Li,
  • Ying Song,
  • Christine Quach,
  • Hongrui Guo,
  • Gyu-Beom Jang,
  • Hadi Maazi,
  • Shihui Zhao,
  • Nathaniel A. Sands,
  • Qingsong Liu,
  • Gino K. In,
  • David Peng,
  • Weiming Yuan,
  • Keigo Machida,
  • Min Yu,
  • Omid Akbari,
  • Ashley Hagiya,
  • Yongfei Yang,
  • Vasu Punj,
  • Liling Tang,
  • Chengyu Liang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09634-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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The relationship between autophagy and BRAF signalling is unclear. Here, the authors describe that BRAF inhibition induces the autophagy-lysosomal function in BRAF-mutant melanomas via modulation of the TFEB and ZKSCAN3 transcriptome, which downregulates TGF-β and suppresses melanoma progression.