Nature Communications (May 2020)

Translational control of breast cancer plasticity

  • Michael Jewer,
  • Laura Lee,
  • Matthew Leibovitch,
  • Guihua Zhang,
  • Jiahui Liu,
  • Scott D. Findlay,
  • Krista M. Vincent,
  • Kristofferson Tandoc,
  • Dylan Dieters-Castator,
  • Daniela F. Quail,
  • Indrani Dutta,
  • Mackenzie Coatham,
  • Zhihua Xu,
  • Aakshi Puri,
  • Bo-Jhih Guan,
  • Maria Hatzoglou,
  • Andrea Brumwell,
  • James Uniacke,
  • Christos Patsis,
  • Antonis Koromilas,
  • Julia Schueler,
  • Gabrielle M. Siegers,
  • Ivan Topisirovic,
  • Lynne-Marie Postovit

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16352-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Protein synthesis suppression protects breast cancer cells from clinically relevant stresses like hypoxia. Here, the authors show that unique mRNA isoforms that govern stem cell-like phenotypes escape translational repression to drive tumor progression and chemoresistance.