Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Promotion of growth factor signaling as a critical function of β-catenin during HCC progression

  • Eunsun Kim,
  • Amanda Lisby,
  • Connie Ma,
  • Nathanael Lo,
  • Ursula Ehmer,
  • Katharina E. Hayer,
  • Emma E. Furth,
  • Patrick Viatour

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09780-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Aberrant Wnt/b-catenin signaling is thought to be a major driver of hepatocellular carcinoma. Here, the authors show that β-Catenin is predominantly integrated within the AJ complex during the early stages of this cancer and enhance EGFR signaling to promote tumour survival.