Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Loss of Wwox drives metastasis in triple-negative breast cancer by JAK2/STAT3 axis

  • Renxu Chang,
  • Lele Song,
  • Yi Xu,
  • Yanjun Wu,
  • Cheng Dai,
  • Xinyu Wang,
  • Xia Sun,
  • Yingyong Hou,
  • Wei Li,
  • Xianbao Zhan,
  • Lixing Zhan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05852-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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In breast cancer, the loss of expression of WW domain-containing oxireductase (Wwox) has been observed. Here, the authors illustrate that in triple negative breast cancer models Wwox suppresses metastasis and proliferation via the JAK2/STAT3 pathway.