Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

SIRT7 antagonizes TGF-β signaling and inhibits breast cancer metastasis

  • Xiaolong Tang,
  • Lei Shi,
  • Ni Xie,
  • Zuojun Liu,
  • Minxian Qian,
  • Fanbiao Meng,
  • Qingyang Xu,
  • Mingyan Zhou,
  • Xinyue Cao,
  • Wei-Guo Zhu,
  • Baohua Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00396-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Metastatic disease is the major reason for breast cancer-related deaths; therefore, a better understanding of this process and its players is needed. Here the authors report the role of SIRT7 in inhibiting SMAD4-mediated breast cancer metastasis providing a possible therapeutic avenue.